"Staunch secularist to head Turkish forces
Thomas Seibert, Foreign Correspondent
ISTANBUL // Gen Ilker Basbug, desiganted to be Turkey’s chief of staff of the armed forces, faces the difficult task of balancing the military’s determination to keep its political role with the country’s ambitions to comply with European norms demanding civilian control over the armed forces."
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