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To: Old Retired Army Guy

That would require that Turkish generals be committed to Kemal Ataturk’s secular society. Most of those have been purged by Erdogan.

The days when the Turkish military intervened to offset chaos, supervise elections, and then return to barracks, are probably long over.


5 posted on 04/20/2016 7:13:38 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: elcid1970

Unfortunately, you are correct.


7 posted on 04/20/2016 7:23:34 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy (frequently.)
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