Erdogan Moves Closer to Turkey Army Control as Generals Quit
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan moved closer to controlling NATO’s second-biggest army as he replaces four top generals who quit in an unprecedented spate of resignations.
The prime minister, re-elected in June to a third term with nearly half the popular vote, late yesterday accepted the resignations of Chief of General Staff Isik Kosaner and the heads of the army, navy and airforce. The lira fell on the news and Kosaner derided the government for treating the secularist military “like a criminal gang” in trials of senior officers accused of plotting a military coup, in a letter published by state news agency Anatolia.