The Turkish Army Has Lost its Lustre : vimarsana.com

After 20 years of rule by the Justice and Development Party, has the influence of the armed forces, who used to intervene directly in running the country, disappeared? The harassment of its former and current personnel indicates that the government’s confidence in the army is far from absolute. When the Justice and Development Party (AKP) won early parliamentary elections in 2002, the arrival in power of this new faction, self-identifying as conservative and democratic, seemed at the time (...)

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