Tuesday, September 04, 2007

TURKISH MILITARY BRACES FOR NEW BATTLE OVER CONSTITUTION - Eurasia Daily Monitor

"TURKISH MILITARY BRACES FOR NEW BATTLE OVER CONSTITUTION By Gareth Jenkins Tuesday, September 4, 2007 Following its failure to prevent the election of Abdullah Gul as Turkey’s president, the Turkish military is now regrouping and preparing for the next battle in what is likely to be a long campaign to preserve the ideological legacy of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who founded the Turkish Republic in 1923 and whose core principles, such as secularism and territorial integrity, are enshrined in the current Turkish constitution."

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