How Organizational Cultural and Structural Changes Led to a Drastic Decline in Turkish Military's Political Dominance?

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Brief Overview

Paper explores how changes in the Turkish army’s institutional design, culture, and social make-up since the 1990s have redefined its relations with politics, which manifested in a puzzling coup after an unprecedented political demilitarization.

Author

• Ozgur Ozkan, University of Washington-Seattle Campus