Do you think the Turkish military supports the Ergenekon investigation?
The Turkish military is currently allowing such operations to be conducted and even to probe its own people. There is a simple reason for that. The way to conduct coups in Turkey has changed since the May 27, 1960 military intervention. The coup of 1960 was staged by a group of Turkish army officers who acted independently of the chain of command. The military was disturbed by this development. As a matter of fact, two coups in 1971 and 1980 were conducted within the limits of the military hierarchy. So the military takes any other interventions planned or done without respecting its hierarchy system as a threat against itself. That means if a military intervention is planned, it should be done by the chief of general staff in agreement with the other military commanders. And what we have seen in the coup diaries is that some people outside the military chain of command were planning to create an environment to prepare for a coup. The coup diaries showed that the coup planners sought a
