Turkish government proposes amendment to curb army power
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    • (JUNE 24-30)

    According to reports, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government has proposed an amendment of the Armed Forces Charter that has in the past been used to justify military coups. Turkey’s military has toppled four governments in forty years, with the last one in 1997 being led by an Islamist party to which Erdogan belonged. The amendment proposes to replace the declared duty to “protect and watch over the republic” with a more limited obligation to defend “the Turkish homeland against foreign threats”. 1

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