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| The Grand Turk | |
| Turkish general arrested over coup plot | |
| 2011-09-06 | |
[Iran Press TV] A Turkish court has arrested and jailed the head of the intelligence department of the Turkish armed forces, General Ismail Hakki Pekin, over an alleged plot to overthrow the government.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Well, the Turks do have a precedent to follow. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-09-06 11:04 |
| #4 Usually the sergeants organize coups against the regimes put in place by successful coups by captains or colonels. Well, semi-successful. It's usually a sign that the chain of command has dissolved entirely in the acid bath of serial military insurrection. I'm not sure I've seen an example where the civilian government successfully liquidates the entire chain of command in fear of a military coup. Unless you count the Stalinist great purges - and say what you will about the AKP, they haven't been shooting their officers wholesale, not yet anyways. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2011-09-06 10:29 |
| #3 Sergeants organizing coups would make them an African country. |
| Posted by: Spot 2011-09-06 07:52 |
| #2 Try Sergeant That would make things interesting in a very different way, newc.. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-09-06 04:25 |
| #1 Try Sergeant. The 38 of high level officers have just resigned. More than 1000 of Military leaders are in jail. Does anyone need to refute me that Turkey is now beyond the help of NATO, speak up now. This is the end of our engagement, kill it before it becomes too stupid to hold. |
| Posted by: newc 2011-09-06 02:15 |