velik_m
07-30-2011, 06:09 AM
It looks like Turkish army is losing power in Turkey:
Turkey: Military chiefs resign en masse
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Gen Kosaner and his senior commanders quit just hours after a court charged 22 suspects, including several generals and officers, with carrying out an internet campaign to undermine the government.
This case is the latest element of the protracted 'Sledgehammer' controversy - a coup plan allegedly presented at an army seminar in 2003.
Seventeen generals and admirals currently in line for promotion were among those jailed in the Sledgehammer prosecutions. Altogether nearly 200 officers were charged with conspiracy.
Twenty-eight servicemen will go on trial next month.
Gen Kosaner was appointed overall head of the Turkish armed forces just a year ago.
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link (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14346325)
Turkey: Military chiefs resign en masse
...
Gen Kosaner and his senior commanders quit just hours after a court charged 22 suspects, including several generals and officers, with carrying out an internet campaign to undermine the government.
This case is the latest element of the protracted 'Sledgehammer' controversy - a coup plan allegedly presented at an army seminar in 2003.
Seventeen generals and admirals currently in line for promotion were among those jailed in the Sledgehammer prosecutions. Altogether nearly 200 officers were charged with conspiracy.
Twenty-eight servicemen will go on trial next month.
Gen Kosaner was appointed overall head of the Turkish armed forces just a year ago.
...
link (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14346325)