"Guidelines for beginners to understand civil-military relations in Turkey: II
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Nihat Ali Özcan - naozcan@tepav.org.tr
In 1999, the generals fully supported the government in making Turkey’s ambition for EU membership a “state policy”. They demonstrated their will by including that decision in the “National Security Policy Document”. In other words, with that decision, Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) would have the same status and role as the armies of the EU member countries, and civil-military relations would be formed in accordance with those norms, once full membership is realized."
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