Mona and her brother Hilmi are the only ones left on their side of the family.

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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

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

And on March 26th Turkey's chief of the general staff, Hilmi Ozkok, announced that he wanted Turkish troops to enter northern Iraq only in full co-ordination with the Americans.

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On the other side of the debate, however, some ardently secular-minded writers have accused General Hilmi Ozkok, the unusually mild-mannered chief of the general staff, of being too soft on the government.

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