{"id":13699,"date":"2011-08-30T12:25:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T09:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=13699"},"modified":"2019-04-01T18:45:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T17:45:06","slug":"turkish-president-gul-hosts-victory-day-in-political-war-13699","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkish-president-gul-hosts-victory-day-in-political-war-13699\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish President G\u00fcl hosts victory day for supremacy in political battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13700\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13700\" title=\"turkey-politics-nationalturk-6134\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/turkey-politics-nationalturk-6134.jpg\" alt=\"Turkey Military shrinks in power as civilian control takes over the army\" width=\"610\" height=\"340\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turkey Military shrinks in power as civilian control takes over the army<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Turkey President Abdullah G\u00fcl hosted Turkey&#8217;s Victory Day celebrations and major changes in military-civil relations occur as a controversial army memo has been removed online.<\/h1>\n<p>The military\u2019s removal from its website Monday of a 2007 memorandum criticizing the nomination of AKP ranks coming President Abdullah G\u00fcl marked the latest in a series of symbolic steps shrinking the turkish army\u2019s influence ahead of Victory Day.<\/p>\n<p>The new momentum break in normalizing civil-military ties was accelerated by new top commander Gen. Necdet \u00d6zel\u2019s proposal that Turkey President Abdullah G\u00fcl, in a break with decades-old tradition, receives greetings on Victory Day, the Aug. 30 holiday that commemorates the final battle in the Turkish War of Independence in 1922 against emperial forces of England, Italy and France and their errand boy Greece.<\/p>\n<h2>Turkey Military shrinks in power as civilian control takes over the army<\/h2>\n<p>Since Gen. \u00d6zel\u2019s appointment as chief of General Staff after Gen. I\u015f\u0131k Ko\u015faner and the rest of military&#8217;s top level&#8217;s resigned in late July in protest against the arrests of high-ranking military officers following court cases like &#8221;Ergenekon&#8217; and &#8221; Balyoz&#8221;( Sledgehammer), a number of steps have been taken to solidify the elected government\u2019s oversight of the turkish military. President G\u00fcl\u2019s new role at Victory Day was preceded by milestone changes in the seating arrangements at both the Supreme Military Council, or YA\u015e, and the National Security Council, or MGK. Illustrating the growing civilian control over the army, these symbolic moves have had visible effects on the Turkish political landscape as both sides show willingness to adopt a more European standard in defining civil-military relations in Turkey, which has experienced military coups since the 1960s periodicly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey President Abdullah G\u00fcl hosted Turkey&#8217;s Victory Day celebrations and major changes in military-civil relations occur as a controversial army memo has been removed online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,118,101,174,194],"tags":[1149,8675,17406,17407,77185,9318,17405],"class_list":["post-13699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-hot","category-politics","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","tag-abdullah-gul","tag-turkey-military","tag-turkey-military-coup","tag-turkey-military-politics","tag-turkey-politics","tag-turkey-president","tag-turkey-victory-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}