76 percent of Turkish army officers now graduates of Erdogan’s military schools - Nordic Monitor

76 percent of Turkish army officers now graduates of Erdogan’s military schools - Nordic Monitor

Levent Kenez/Stockholm More than three-quarters of Turkish military officers are now graduates of the National Defense University, a school created by the Islamist government in the aftermath of a 2016 coup attempt to replace the country’s historic military academies and reshape the armed forces under a new centralized system. The figures reflect how deeply the officer corps has been rebuilt through graduates of an institution directly controlle…