Friday, February 26, 2010

Military on trial in Turkey

"Military on trial in Turkey
The government has charged a number of high-ranking officers with plotting a coup.

February 27, 2010

The Turkish military has long served as the guardian of secular rule in Ankara, even when it meant staging a coup to do so. Turkey's elected Islamist-based government, meanwhile, has sought to subordinate the military to civilian rule as befits a democratic country, although perhaps not always by the purest means."

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