"How Turkey Tamed Its Army
Fifty years after the country's most infamous military coup, Turkey finally appears to be strenghening its democratic institutions.
BY ALI ASLAN | MAY 28, 2010
On May 27, 1960, Turkish military officers arrested democratically elected Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, and members of his cabinet. Menderes was placed on a trial before a military-orchestrated special court on charges of treason, and was subsequently hanged. For the last half century, Turkey has been struggling to overcome this original sin in civil-military relations."
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