February 13, 2012
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[Financial Times] Turkey tries to rebuild confidence in military
6 February 2010 / ,
Turkey’s government on Thursday took a step to reassert civilian control of the country’s powerful military, acting in the wake of controversy over alleged coup plots that has undermined public trust in the army and put the generals on the defensive.
A joint decision by ministers and the military command has abolished a measure permitting the army to intervene to calm unrest in cities without a governor’s request, Beşir Atalay, the interior minister, told reporters. The so-called “Emasya protocol” dates from 1997 when the military, in the fourth coup of Turkey’s 87-year republican history, forced a newly-elected Islamist government from power and sought to bolster its defences against fundamentalism. The European Union has long pressed Turkey, as part of its candidature for EU membership, to end its armed forces’ undue influence in politics.
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