Erdogan-Buyukanit meeting
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Army Chief of Staff Yasar Buyukanit on Friday.
Erdogan said he was at loggerheads with the Turkish general for the first time since the Turkish military threatened to intervene on April 27, following Gul's announcement of his candidacy for the Turkish presidency. that the general staff of the army "is obliged to move under the orders of the prime minister". Since then, Messrs. Erdogan and Buyukanit had only one telephone conversation. Since the beginning of the crisis, a lot of water has flowed into the gutter of polarization, as the Turkish Constitutional Court annulled the first ballot for the election of a president, calling for early parliamentary elections for the 22nd of June.
