Saturday, July 30, 2011

A sharp turn in military-civilian relations

"A sharp turn in military-civilian relations

Saturday, July 30, 2011
Murat Yetkin

The possibility that Gen. Işık Koşaner, the Turkish Armed Forces’ chief of General Staff, could resign had been a rumor in Ankara for sometime due to a difference of opinion with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government over the recent arrests of a number of generals and admirals, as well as over the figures that would replace them."

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