CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS TRANSFORMED.

The article focuses on the Turkish civil-military relations. Senior military officers evinced a desire to stay above politics and politicians in the sense both of remaining unsullied by them and of retaining control over them. In 1970, the military gravely disappointed left-wing revolutionary groups by deserting them and intervening in politics on the side of the center-right status quo and the Western alliance. Absolutism among the Turkish military appears to be in irreversible decline, and the gradualists seem to have won.