"Turkish crackdown goes back to murky war game in 2003
Turks trust their army, so the sight of military men being arrested is deeply disturbing, writes NICHOLAS BIRCH
TURKEY HAS never seen anything quite like this week’s crackdown on murky events which the media have dubbed “Sledgehammer”.
Soldiers founded this country. They have booted out four governments in 50 years, executing one prime minister in the process. Turks trust the army far more than any other state institution."
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