Friday, July 30, 2010

Turkey’s generals now taking orders, not giving them - The Globe and Mail

"Turkey’s generals now taking orders, not giving them

Susan Sachs

Istanbul — From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published on Friday, Jul. 30, 2010 8:06PM EDT

Every Turk is born a soldier, or so all schoolchildren here are taught. The corollary, writ large in the constitution and in political tradition, is that the military is the unassailable guarantor of Turkey’s very existence."

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