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May 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Six retired generals, including former commanders of the land forces and air force, were taken into custody on Tuesday over their alleged role in the 1997 coup that ousted the country’s first Islamist-led government, Turkish media outlets reported.
The six were among 10 suspects that prosecutors referred to Ankara’s 12th High Criminal Court for approval of arrest warrants.
On May 8, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the prosecutors to quickly finalize the legal case.
Dozens of military officers have been arrested as part of the investigation of the 1997 bloodless coup, in which a parade of tanks outside Ankara and an ultimatum to Erbakan were all it took to overthrow his government without violence.
The 1997 coup in Turkey is called “post-modern” since it forced the government to resign without resorting to violent tactics or replacing the civilian administration with the military.
The Turkish military, which has been the self-appointed guardian of secularism in the country since the founding of the republic in 1923 and was widely regarded as an important element of the deep state, has overthrown four governments in coups in 1960, 1971, 1980, and 1997.
However, Erdogan has sharply curbed the military’s power during the Justice and Development Party’s decade in government.
AS/HGL
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