"Turkey's General Dilemma
Democracy and the Reverse Coup
Omer Taspinar
August 8, 2011
Turkey is not yet a liberal democracy but it is moving in the right direction. Those who lament the military chief of staff's recent resignation, arguing that the armed forces were an essential check on civilian politics, should understand that Turkey is now becoming a normal democracy, where elected officials will matter more than the military."
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