TURKEY: Turkish army purge spells end of Kemalism*

When NATO’s second biggest army falls victim to a ruthless political make-over, one would expect that it would send political shockwaves across the world.
The Turkish army has undergone a radical transformation since 2007, yet this has been barely reported in the Australian media.
On July 29, chief of Turkey’s general staff, General Isik Kosaner, and the heads of Turkey’s army, navy and air force, resigned.
Kosaner said he did so because it was “impossible&…

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