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Seems to be mixed signs. With reports of people supporting the coup and others condemning it. Likely it's not the whole military though. Top Brass doesn't seem to be supporting it.
Seems to be mixed signs. With reports of people supporting the coup and others condemning it. Likely it's not the whole military though. Top Brass doesn't seem to be supporting it.
It's always the colonels. The generals have too much to lose, and are too closely connected to the political leadership.
The 1949 treaty that created the U.S. alliance has no mechanism for suspending members, unlike the United Nations, the European Union or the Organization of American States.
Nothing in NATO's founding 1949 Washington Treaty says anything about intervening in the internal or political affairs of an alliance member, and Turkey kept its NATO membership following past military coups.
But in most cases, the United States, does not recognized the government created of a coup, until a new set of free elections are held. So that is the dilemma for our government, at least historically.
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