Beheading The Eagle: Is This The End Of The Turkish Army As We Know It?

If losing some 700 officers, including generals and admirals, in 2011 was the “beheading” of the Turkish Armed Forces, the July 15 coup attempt and its aftermath has inflicted an even deeper wound on an institution whose primary goal was to safeguard the “secular and democratic republic” of its founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.