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Monday, August 01, 2011

Turkey must further clip military wings - FT.com

"Turkey must further clip military wings

By David Gardner in London

Time was when Turkey’s powerful army would thunder into the nation’s cities, or simply make plain its refusal to tolerate this policy or that person, and the government of the day would fall. Last Friday the top military brass tried a different tack. General Isik Kosaner, the chief of staff, and the commanders of the army, air force and navy all downed tools and walked off the job. Turkish citizens barely noticed. How are the mighty fallen."

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