None more so than Yasar Buyukanit, who took over from General Ozkok last year.

ECONOMIST: Turkey and its army

Then there is Yasar Yakis, a former diplomat who is the new foreign minister.

ECONOMIST: Turkey's government

At this writing, such a decision seems not only possible but, according to Foreign Minister Yasar Yakis, in prospect.

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Turkey's former foreign minister, Yasar Yakis, admitted last week that Turkey never believed that the Americans had a fallback position.

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Happily, although the chief of the general staff, General Yasar Buyukanit, harrumphed, he refused publicly to disavow Mr Erdogan's potential candidacy.

ECONOMIST: Turkey's president

"It will be a tricky situation for the PML-N, " said Yasar.

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General Yasar Buyukanit, a tough commander who served in the south-east at the peak of the Kurdish insurgency in the 1990s, took over as chief of the armed forces this week.

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