In one of the toughest actions against the powerful Turkish military in the history of modern Turkey, the police detained three of the country’s highest-ranking former generals on Monday as part of a vast and lengthy investigation into a shadowy ultranationalist movement accused of planning to overthrow the Islamist-inspired government.The Turkish Army has long been the protector of Turkey's secularism - and the ruling AKP is destroying Turkey's secularism.
News reports identified the detainees as a former deputy chief of the general staff, Ergin Saygun; a former air force commander, Ibrahim Firtina; and a former naval commander, Ozden Ornek. They were detained at their homes in Istanbul and the capital, Ankara.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said more than 40 people in all were taken into custody during the security operations on Monday, including 14 other former high-ranking military officers.
To finish the job and turn Turkey into a full blown Islamist state like PAKISTAN, the AKP must purge the Army.
This has begun. It goes right along with their diplomatic attacks on longtime ally Israel, their refusal to help us during the Iraq War, and their steady movement toward Iran and Syria and Hizballah and Hamas.
We should support a military coup against the AKP, or kick Turkey out of NATO.
I hadn't heard this story before and it is disturbing to see a secular state like Turkey moving more and more toward becoming an Islamic nation. I don't know what kind of support the current government has from the people, but as you indicate the military has been a bulwark against radical Islam for many years.
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