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TURKEY: Military Ghost Rises Again - IPS ipsnews.net

"TURKEY: Military Ghost Rises Again
Analysis by Jacques N. Couvas

ANKARA, Jun 29 (IPS) - Less than two years after its discreet sealing, the truce between ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party and the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) seems to have ended.

The publication Jun. 12 of an article in Taraf, a liberal newspaper, of an alleged plan by army officers to overthrow the government and incriminate Fethullah Gulen, a religious leader and founder of the country's largest Muslim brotherhood, revived the polemic over the role of the military in the governance of the nation."

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