As the killings mount, the army watches
Everybody who was anybody in Ankara should have attended the Belgian embassy's National Day reception last week. But as the evening wore on, the partying diplomats and politicians made a chilling observation: not a single Turkish general or admiral was present. Within hours of the reception, rumors were sweeping Turkey's capital that the country's top military commanders were in an emergency meeting plotting a takeover. As it turned out, the officers were merely attending a military wedding, but the wave of jitters was a barometer of the mood in a country where terrorist...
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