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To: Diogenesis

The Turks are going to be BIG trouble - they have one of the top ten standing militaries in the world, and are (as they have always been)inherently an unstable Country...


22 posted on 07/15/2016 1:05:42 PM PDT by heterosupremacist ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson)
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25 posted on 07/15/2016 1:06:37 PM PDT by libertarian27 (FR Cookbooks - On Profile Page)
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To: heterosupremacist

The military in Turkey, like the military in Egypt, has always been the enforcer of the more secular aspects of the nation, and after the current Turkish regime had gone a little off the rails, the military, organized mostly under the revolt of the colonels, is throwing out the deadwood.

This is not a new phenomenon for Turkey.


100 posted on 07/15/2016 1:28:33 PM PDT by alloysteel (Of course you will live in interesting times, Nobody has a choice, now.)
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To: heterosupremacist

The Turkish military has historically “taken over” when the government strayed too far from its role as established in the Turkish constitution.


240 posted on 07/15/2016 2:04:43 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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