For decades, long before the rise of President Erdogan, Turkey had a balance counter balance between democratic forces and the military caste. The military was in place to preserve the democracy. And every decade or so when the extremists (or the Islamists as we call them today) were about to take over the democratic nature of government, the military would step in (read coup) and stabilize the government which would then return power to the people.
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