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The government succeeded in rejecting the army's candidate for the next land-forces commander, Gen. Hasan Igsiz.
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According to Turkey's military tradition, the 1st Army commander Gen. Hasan Igsiz was the automatic candidate to be the next land-forces commander.
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As a result of the rejection of Gen. Igsiz, a decision was delayed on whether to appoint current land-forces head Gen. Isik Kosaner to succeed Gen. Ilker Basbug as the next chief of the general staff, the statement said.
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The key issue is whether the military will be able to secure its old-school secularist candidate, land-forces commander Gen. Isik Kosaner, as the next chief of the General Staff.
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A deal would end the worrying impasse, because Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who heads an Islamic-leaning government deeply at odds with Turkey's secularist officer corps, last week refused to endorse the military's candidate for the land-forces command after a four-day meeting of the country's Supreme Military Council, or YAS.
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As commander of the 1st Army, Gen. Igsiz traditionally would get the land-forces job.
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As the current land-forces commander, Gen. Kosaner, known as a tough secularist in Turkey's military tradition, was the automatic candidate for the top job.
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As land-forces chief, he has been all but silent for the last two years.
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Don Guzman would certainly return to seek them; and not only he, but land-forces from St. Jago.
Westward Ho! 2007
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Rhegian territory, and the Syracusans and their confederates united their fleet and anchored at the promontory of Pelorus near Messenè, where their land-forces were also stationed.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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