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MADem

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18. Could be. Let's not assume the "state" speaks with one voice, either.

Reply to Comrade Grumpy (Reply #16)

Sat Oct 10, 2015, 05:34 PM

Oct 2015

There is a great deal of tension between the Armed Forces and the civilian arm of the government (and that's just for starters). The civilians "won" a while back, and a lot of the old generals who liked the Attaturk ways were flung, against their will, into retirement to be replaced by more complacent seniors.

Then, there's the fundy-moderate tension on the civilian side of things.

It's not a united voice, "the state." Probably won't be for a while.

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