"Arrests of officers drive a wedge into Turkey
Thomas Seibert, Foreign Correspondent
* Last Updated: March 03. 2010 12:50AM UAE / March 2. 2010 8:50PM GMT
Demonstrators march in Istanbul against the suspected coup. But some see the arrests as a plot by elements within the government to discredit the country's secular armed forces. Mustafa Ozer / AFP
ISTANBUL // The arrest of dozens of serving and former officers of Turkey’s armed forces in recent days may have weakened a hitherto powerful institution widely seen as being opposed to political change. But as rifts between opposing political forces appear to be deeper than ever, the country’s politicians are unlikely to agree on further democratic reforms to strengthen Turkey’s EU bid."
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