Turkey’s Top Military Brass Resign In Unprecedented Protest of Erdogan Government

Yesterday was the first time so many top military commanders in Turkey have stepped down simultaneously. Many believe this has gifted Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, leader of the Islamist party, a decisive victory over the military whose role as guardian of the secular state has been eroded.

Erdogan was quick to promote generals more friendly to his policies. The Turkish government insisted that the sudden change of the military’s leadership was no cause for concern.
The AP reported:

Turkey’s president acknowledged Saturday that the resignation of the nation’s top military commanders was unprecedented, but he said it would not cause a crisis.

The commanders suddenly quit Friday to protest the arrest of dozens of generals as suspects in an alleged plot to overthrow the country’s Islamic-rooted government.

Many have questioned whether such a plot ever existed and see the arrests as part of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s long-standing campaign to establish civilian authority over Turkey’s once powerful military. The government strongly denies that allegation.

“No one should see this as a crisis in Turkey,” President Abdullah Gul told reporters on Saturday. “The developments yesterday were extraordinary within its scope, but as you see everything is continuing on its own course. There is no (power) vacuum.”

Turkey, a member of NATO, has contributed to the U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, and the military often fights Kurdish rebels who have been waging a campaign for autonomy in southeastern Turkey since 1984 — a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people.

Erdogan, who has been in power since 2002, has worked hard to establish civilian authority over Turkey’s once-powerful military, which had staged three coups since 1960 and pressured an Islamist premier out of office in 1997.

On Saturday, Labor Minister Faruk Celik tried to reassure the country that the sudden change of the military’s leadership is no cause for concern.

“I believe that what happened yesterday night would contribute to the normalization of Turkey as well as putting the military-civilian relations on the right track,” he said in a speech in the southeastern city of Sanliurfa.

#1 July 30, 2011 at 8:12 am
Remco Kimber commented:

Moving toward undiluted Islam.

Islam yesterday.

Islam today.

Islam forever.

Or so they think.
#2 July 30, 2011 at 8:18 am
Carbon Pootprint commented:

Ah the plot against the west between the American Communist and the Islamofascist thickens
#3 July 30, 2011 at 8:23 am
#1AMERICAN commented:

kenyan fraud’s crazy brothers inciting islam everywhere…welcome to odumbo’s new world order
#4 July 30, 2011 at 9:29 am
gwhh commented:

another nation lost to the green banner of islam radicals under Berry O!!
#5 July 30, 2011 at 9:41 am
shubumi commented:

Great. Another member of the new Caliphate.

Hope they get thrown out of NATO ASAP.
#7 July 30, 2011 at 10:24 am
slp commented:

“Gift” is a noun, not a verb.

“Give” is the proper verb.

Many believe this has GIVEN Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, leader of the Islamist party, a decisive victory over the military whose role as guardian of the secular state has been eroded.
#8 July 30, 2011 at 10:36 am
ilikai commented:

Another country falling under the islamic caliphate
#9 July 30, 2011 at 10:57 am
wanumba commented:

Maybe. Depends on whether they can take half the military with them, then it’s civil war.
#11 July 30, 2011 at 1:49 pm
bg commented:

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aah, more butterflies, forget them, we are the UNACORN..

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#12 July 30, 2011 at 1:52 pm
Catherine commented:

This can save the USA some Money. You ask How?
We use the leftist sep. Church and state and Turkey is Part of NATO sorry no more money?

Won’t be easy but the leftist democrats need to pony up. Or really be run out of town Tared and feathered. Remember Hot Tar burns.

We can send all the Gay service there Yes from State and the Military Ony Gays to be stationed in Turkey.

If there is any problems well sorry no more money.

This move will hurt Europe the most since they have all those Pipe lines that run through Turkey.

Will Europe fight back?
I don’t think so being that they are trying to give Libia to Egypt? Or put this way Libia and all that oil to the Mussi brotherhood? Weinners wife’s mother and brother and #2 AQ?

This Trillion increase needs to be only spent in the USA no money overseas. Not to help in Libia or bailout Greece not one dime for guns to mexico’s Hezzi pop? Why was state arming the mussi gangs in the south? OH yea weinners wife worked 16 yrs for Cliton.

Remember bullies are like Blackmailers they will never quit.
Don’t feed the beast.

Catherine
A Hobbit who won’t go home
#13 July 30, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Catherine commented:

Libya
#14 July 30, 2011 at 5:03 pm
bg commented:

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Catherine #13

NATO will be Defeated in Libya

via Louis Farrakhan

Rev Wright Pal

[Wright is being introduced in the video by Robert W. McChesney,
co-founder of Free Press, an organization which has come under
scrutiny for its links to the Obama Administration and dedication
to the transformation and control of the private media in the U.S.

In an article in the socialist Monthly Review, “Journalism, Democracy,
and Class Struggle,” McChesney declared, “Our job is to make media
reform part of our broader struggle for democracy, social justice, and,
dare we say it, socialism.”]

Qaddafi Pal

[The following year, in January 1996, Farrakhan returned from another
trip to Libya. It was the same month in which Barack Obama became an
Illinois State Senator. By then, Obama had been attending Rev. Wright's
church for ten years, the latter five as a committed member.]

Obama Pal

[On numerous occasions, Farrakhan has made alliances with avowed
foreign enemies of the United States. In January 1996, for instance,
he formed a partnership with Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi, who
pledged $1 billion to help Farrakhan develop a Muslim political lobby
in the U.S.

[..]

Among the notable individuals who helped Farrakhan organize
the Million Man March were Al Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright, and
Barack Obama.]

more @ links & in connecting links :aka: the neck
bones connected to the chin bone, etc, etc, gah!!

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#15 July 31, 2011 at 2:23 am
Molon Labe commented:

Who are you kidding here. These men didn’t resign. This was a move to insure an Islamic Republic. They decapitated any possible resistance.

And yes, we have Obama to thank for this.