ML-Implode News - Turkish Leader Disowns Trials That Helped Him Tame Military, In Growing Scandal

The reassessment of the evidence that supported the military trials is putting new light on what has been hailed, here and abroad, as Mr. Erdogan's most important achievement: securing civilian control over the military. The way it was done, however, is now increasingly viewed as an act of revenge by Turkey's Islamists against their former oppressors in the military, once the guardians of the secular tradition laid down by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey.
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When the corruption investigation went public, Gareth Jenkins, a longtime writer and analyst in Turkey, said he noticed several similarities in tactics to the investigation of the military, and listed them: the same prosecutors, the use of simultaneous dawn raids on the homes and offices of suspects, an immediate defamation campaign in the Gulen-affiliated news media, and the leaks of wiretapped conversations.

"As soon as you saw these characteristics you thought, â€˜This is the same group of people doing it,' " Mr. Jenkins said.

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Turkish Leader Disowns Trials That Helped Him Tame Military, In Growing Scandal