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2006-08-01 Europe

Ankara picks hard-line general to replace armed forces' outgoing chief of staff

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Posted by Fred 2006-08-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 He looks like a corpse propped up and with sunglasses to hide the eyes.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-08-01 06:28|| 2006-08-01 06:28|| Front Page Top

#2 My understanding is there are two different fights going on, or rather two different dimensions along which people disagree.

Fight between the Islamacists and the oldschool Turkish generals who are mostly secularists but who in any case distrust populism of the sort the Islamacists used to gain office. - one dimension

Along another dimension, there's a fight between those who want into the EU and those who don't because it would diminish Turkish autonomy - including, for the Islamacists, the autonomy to impose Sharia.

These parties overlap, but not entirely IIUC. Comments from anyone who's more intimately familiar with the political issues there would be welcome.

Posted by lotp 2006-08-01 07:48|| 2006-08-01 07:48|| Front Page Top

#3 "Weekend at Bernies"

Posted by Captain America 2006-08-01 21:40|| 2006-08-01 21:40|| Front Page Top

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