"General insists army has role in politics
Ian Traynor
Wednesday September 27, 2006
The Guardian
A leading Turkish general issued a stinging attack on the centre-right government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan by warning that the danger of Islamism in the country was reaching 'alarming' levels.
Defying EU demands for the military to keep out of politics, General Ilker Basbug, chief of land forces, warned the Erdogan government that the top brass still saw itself as the ultimate arbiter of Turkey's secularist constitution."
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