Loyalty to Erdogan becomes only factor in Turkey’s 2025 military promotions - Nordic Monitor

Loyalty to Erdogan becomes only factor in Turkey’s 2025 military promotions - Nordic Monitor

Levent Kenez/Stockholm With the 2025 Supreme Military Council decisions, it has once again become clear that advancement in the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) depends on loyalty rather than professional merit. Since a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has overseen a broad restructuring of the military, removing officers he deemed disloyal and replacing them with Islamist figures considered politically aligned wi…