Posted on 07/30/2011 3:49:56 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Turkey’s entire top military command resigned Friday in a row with the government over generals jailed for an alleged coup plot, AFP reported.
According to the report, Turkey’s Chief of Staff, General Isik Kosaner, stepped down after several meetings with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in recent days, ahead of a meeting scheduled for early August of the army’s high command, which decides on promotions for senior officers.
Local media reports blamed Kosaner’s resignation on tensions between the military and Erdogan over army demands for the promotion of dozens of officers who are being held on suspicion of involvement in an alleged anti-government plot.
Following Kosaner, the commanders of the army, air force and navy also quit, a first for Turkey. Kosaner was appointed to his post for a three-year term last year and the other three commanders were due to have retired next month.
AFP noted that 42 generals and dozens of officers are in jail in a probe of alleged plots to overthrow the government. As part of the investigation into an alleged 2003 plan dubbed “Operation Sledgehammer” to overthrow the government, 28 servicemen will go on trial next month.
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Only if the spirit of Attaturk is well, otherwise the mooselimb hordes will turn Turkey into a bloody field fo Islamic revolution and murder all who do not tow shitria law.
It’s going to be very interesting! The military has been fiercely secular. I’m going to curious to get my BIL’s view on this. He’s just back from two months in Turkey, visiting his ailing Mother.
I think "alleged" is Islamist (political Islam, Sharia law advocate: Erdogan, Gul, AKP) for lies.
Don't give the aged 60s Marxist "radicals" (spoiled brats) and their ideological offspring in the Administration (including Oval Office) any ideas! This could be Obama's second term if he's reelected and continues to go 60s Marxist spoiled brats, street-agitator bonkers.
What about that Gulen fellow who is here in America (naturalized citizen I believe) and is helping big time to "bring it all down, man" in Turkey. Why don't he and his "movement" go live in Turkey?
Yeah. You’re right, as far as I can tell.
Last weekend I heard on San Francisco KSFO Barbara Simpson interview Ms Claire Berlinski about her book There is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters.
Turns out Ms Berlinski is a long-time resident of Istanbul and writes about things Turkish here
Meanwhile more on "American citizen" Fethullah Gülen and his "movement" are helping the Islamist AKP suppress freedom, lie, jail, persecute and destroy lives and impose Islamism on the tens of millions who do not want it. That don't make a lick of sense. Except that he is probably a favorite of the Obamas, et al. Our richest nincompoops shower him with dollars.
I spent two years there working with the Turkish Armed Forces. While Erdogan has won his elections with a majority of votes, I found it interesting how he ‘conquers’ AKP-hostile ground (such as Izmir). They erect huge apartment buildings and populate them with the very religious families from the easternmost parts of the country. If there aren’t enough votes in the next election, up go more apartments.
Ah yes, the perfect results of democracy.
A tyranny of a despote, a class or a 51% majority of a democracy is still tyranny.
Ezekiel 38-39, Turkey is part of the array of nations outlined - which attack Israel.
Google it, FReepers. Wake up.
but islam is probably taking over the secular military of almost 100 years.
Ezekiel 38-39, Turkey is part of the array of nations outlined - which attack Israel.
Google it, FReepers. Wake up.
I had wondered about that. I remember reading that Erdogan wanted a "closer" look at Izmir which, I believe, did not have a majority vote for the AKP.
More ideas for the aged 60s nut case spoiled brats in the Obama Administration.
Headline: Obama Moving Whole Neighborhoods From Chicago To . . . .
Thank the EU for refusing Turkey membership and thereby strengthening the hand of the Islamofascists.
Turkey is just about completely transformed into an Islamist state (just ahead of Egypt). The last thing the EU needs is a large and influential Islamist state in its membership. If they had been accepted, they would still be Islamist.
Except back then, they weren’t Islamist, but secularist since the 1930s. Being rejected by the EU was what started the momentum towards Islamisation, now nearly complete.
The Turks didn’t enter a formal process for membership until 2005. Erdogan’s party gained an absolute parliamentary majority in 2002. At that point the die was cast, the Islamicists were in control before the application process started. It was too late.
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