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THOMAS DE VAAL: TURKISH "DEEP STATE" KEEPS ON STRIKING AS WITH HRANT DINK'S AWFUL ASSASSINATION
Mediamax
Sept 1 2011
Armenia
Yerevan/Mediamax/. Turkish "deep state" associated with the army and
intelligence service still strikes on occasion, as with the awful
assassination of Istanbul Armenian newspaper editor Hrant Dink in
Istanbul in 2007.
British expert Thomas de Vaal writes this in his " Russia's Toxic Deep
State" article published in The National Interest., Mediamax reports.
"There were media reports that Dink's teenage killer had been protected
by police officers and evidence covered up", notes the expert.
"The story of Turkey's last decade has been that of Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan's mission to humble the country's military
establishment, which had in its time humbled a series of civilian
governments. That story reached a climax this August as Erdogan forced
the mass resignation of the entire military leadership. But Turkey's
outer security structures are the outer core of something deeper.
Modern Turkey also has its shadowy military-security hinterland
known as the "deep state," a group of fanatical individuals devoted
to upholding an almost sacred conception of the Kemalist state order
and getting rid of any liberals, Marxists or Islamists who threaten it.
The "deep state" is associated with the army and intelligence service
but too shadowy and extreme for those links to be traceable", notes
Thomas de Vaal.
Mediamax
Sept 1 2011
Armenia
Yerevan/Mediamax/. Turkish "deep state" associated with the army and
intelligence service still strikes on occasion, as with the awful
assassination of Istanbul Armenian newspaper editor Hrant Dink in
Istanbul in 2007.
British expert Thomas de Vaal writes this in his " Russia's Toxic Deep
State" article published in The National Interest., Mediamax reports.
"There were media reports that Dink's teenage killer had been protected
by police officers and evidence covered up", notes the expert.
"The story of Turkey's last decade has been that of Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan's mission to humble the country's military
establishment, which had in its time humbled a series of civilian
governments. That story reached a climax this August as Erdogan forced
the mass resignation of the entire military leadership. But Turkey's
outer security structures are the outer core of something deeper.
Modern Turkey also has its shadowy military-security hinterland
known as the "deep state," a group of fanatical individuals devoted
to upholding an almost sacred conception of the Kemalist state order
and getting rid of any liberals, Marxists or Islamists who threaten it.
The "deep state" is associated with the army and intelligence service
but too shadowy and extreme for those links to be traceable", notes
Thomas de Vaal.