Erdogan continues Islamization of the army despite still-hopeful secularists - Nordic Monitor

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Erdogan continues Islamization of the army despite still-hopeful secularists - Nordic Monitor

Levent Kenez/Stockholm On August 30, after the Turkish Military Academy’s graduation ceremony, which was attended by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a group of newly commissioned officers privately recited the oath taken by officers the past, a tradition that has been excluded from the graduation program since 2016. Among them, a smaller group shouted the slogan, “We are the soldiers of Mustafa Kemal,” echoing a popular phrase among secularists …