Those coups are what has kept Turkey tied to secular government instead of becoming like the Taliban.
I agree
>>Those coups are what has kept Turkey tied to secular government instead of becoming like the Taliban.
Precisely so.
Pournelle has addressed this several times. Here’s a good short essay that briefly touches on the formation of modern Turkey by Kemal Ataturk, and how his forced modernization still affects actions being taken today. This from 2007, so what is going on now has been percolating for a good while.
The Crisis in Turkey
http://jerrypournelle.com/archives2/archives2view/view465.html#Turkey
were they coups or the military upholding the turkish commitment to a secular government...
watch your semantics and do not be spun into believing that the coups were good or the military bad.
teeman