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2011-09-06 The Grand Turk

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Posted by Fred 2011-09-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Try Sergeant. The 38 of high level officers have just resigned. More than 1000 of Military leaders are in jail. Does anyone need to refute me that Turkey is now beyond the help of NATO, speak up now.

This is the end of our engagement, kill it before it becomes too stupid to hold.

Posted by newc 2011-09-06 02:15|| 2011-09-06 02:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Try Sergeant

That would make things interesting in a very different way, newc..

Posted by trailing wife 2011-09-06 04:25|| 2011-09-06 04:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Sergeants organizing coups would make them an African country.

Posted by Spot 2011-09-06 07:52|| 2011-09-06 07:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Usually the sergeants organize coups against the regimes put in place by successful coups by captains or colonels. Well, semi-successful. It's usually a sign that the chain of command has dissolved entirely in the acid bath of serial military insurrection.

I'm not sure I've seen an example where the civilian government successfully liquidates the entire chain of command in fear of a military coup. Unless you count the Stalinist great purges - and say what you will about the AKP, they haven't been shooting their officers wholesale, not yet anyways.

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-09-06 10:29|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-09-06 10:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, the Turks do have a precedent to follow.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-09-06 11:04|| 2011-09-06 11:04|| Front Page Top

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