This makes a recent speech by General Hilmi Ozkok, the army's chief of staff, interesting and, in some respects, troubling.

ECONOMIST: Turkey and the European Union

Excerpts include details of two separate planned coups concocted in 2004 that were quashed by the then chief of the general staff, Hilmi Ozkok.

ECONOMIST: Turkey and its army

Perhaps even more telling was a declaration by General Hilmi Ozkok, the chief of Turkey's general staff, that Cyprus was a matter for the politicians.

ECONOMIST: Turkey's government