Highest-ranking Turkish soldiers resign (Mass Resign of Generals)

[Cellis]

Shocking news from Turkey!

Turkish Chief of General Staff Gen. Işık Koşaner announced his resignation Friday afternoon.

His resignation was followed by the resignations of Turkey's Land, Sea and Air Force commanders.

The Supreme Military Council, or YAŞ, is to meet in two days.

Other soldiers are expected to be promoted so that that the council can convene.

[Mediocrates]

Well there goes the country. Now only AKP flunkies will run things. Expect the army to install a Revolutionary Guards-like contingent that keeps its guns turned in towards the Turks to keep them in line under radical Islam.

[bararallu]

How long until they are arrested?

[SpaceCowboy]

What a shame. Ataturk weeps in his grave.

[Cellis]

They have installed their own guy in the top.
EU calls this "a democratic move".

Necdet Özel becomes acting Chief of General Staff after mass resignations
Former Gendarmerie General Commander Gen. Necdet Özel was appointed as Land Forces Commander and acting Chief of General Staff after Chief of General Staff Gen. Işık Koşaner and the commanders of the air, navy and land forces all resigned from their positions amid controversy over the appointment of generals.

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-2521...inst-govt.html

[Mediocrates]

The resignations were the culmination of a year of frustrations, in which more than 40 generals — approximately a tenth of the senior military command — were taken into custody, an assault that has infuriated the military but left it essentially helpless to fight back.

A more immediate spark may have come in the form of new arrest warrants for 22 more people, among them two top generals, which were issued Friday, the semficial Anatolian News Agency reported.

“This is the first time in the history of the republic that we are seeing something like this,” said Gursel Tekin, vice president of the main opposition political party, who was speaking in the seaside city of Canakkale. “Honestly, this situation is not good.”

Historically, the military has wielded immense power in Turkey. The modern nation was founded in 1923 by Gen. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and the military remained involved in politics after the country went to a multiparty political system in the 1950s.

Military leaders have deposed elected governments four times in Turkish history, beginning in 1960, when they went so far as to execute the country’s first democratically elected prime minister, Adnan Menderes. But the Turkish political system has gone through profound changes in recent years, and many analysts argued that resigning was the only weapon left in the military’s arsenal. Few people interviewed on Friday thought that a coup was likely, both because Turkey’s democracy now has deep roots and because the military appeared diminished.

http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/201...ignations.html

[Cellis]

I don't care how bad it would effect the economy but I wish there was a military coup. Economy vs Radical Islamism? Fuk islamism (moderate or radical) and economy both. We all know that Ataturk was an atheist. For you Israelis and Jewish people it all looks like an ally is floating away for me it is even worse and emberrasing. Islam is nothing but a dangerous virus that would cause a zombie apocalypse.