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Turkey's military chief warns pro-Islamist government of possible coup Jonny Dymond in Istanbul Tuesday May 27, 2003 The Guardian The head of Turkey's armed forces warned the government yesterday that the possibility of military intervention still existed and that the government should be sensitive to the country's secularist constitution. General Hilmi Ozkok, the chief of the Turkish general staff, told a selected group of Turkish journalists that the government's policy of re-employing those expelled from the army for their Islamist activities was offensive. The armed forces fear the government is appointing religious radicals to important positions in the bureaucracy. Gen...