"Laws and Generals: The Turkish Military’s Flip-Flop with Democracy
Posted on Sunday, April 23 @ 06:00:00 EST by CDeliso
Turkey, Greece and the Caucasus Articles By Mehmet Kalyoncu
The recent Şemdinli incidents in Hakkari, the far southeastern province of Turkey, have strained Turkish civilian-military relations once again and raised crucial questions about the durability of those relations. Do the EU-led improvements in Turkey’s civilian-military relations have substance, or are they just rhetoric? And is the subordination of the military authority to the civilian administration, a goal that has under Chief of General Staff Gen. Hilmi Özkök’s democratic leadership seemed more possible than ever before, proving to be just a mirage? Is it not possible after all for even the top military official to change the status-quo attitude within the Turkish military towards the civilian administration?"
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