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Erdoğan reshaped command structure of Turkish troops deployed in Cyprus
Many of the commanding officers of troops that Turkey maintains in divided Cyprus were removed on flimsy evidence as part of a major overhaul of the Turkish military by the…
- Nordic Monitor
- Abdullah Bozkurt
According to a trove of secret military documents obtained by Nordic Monitor, highly dubious evidence was presented as a pretext for removing senior officers in the…
The charges filed against the officers, ranging from coup plotting to terrorism, are believed to simply have been a pretext for shaping the command structure of what the Turkish government calls the…
The activities of Turkish troops in…