The chief of the general staff should be answerable to the defence minister, not the other way round.
Turkey's new chief of the general staff, Isik Kosaner, has hardly uttered a peep.
Yet the chief of the general staff, General Ilker Basbug, broadly supports the government's softer Kurdish policy.
General Sir Peter Wall, Chief of the General Staff, said "thought and imagination" had gone into the training facility.
Britain's former Chief of the General Staff General Sir Michael Walker will take over the position on Friday, May 2.
Happily, although the chief of the general staff, General Yasar Buyukanit, harrumphed, he refused publicly to disavow Mr Erdogan's potential candidacy.
Nowadays, even Turkey's chief of the general staff, Ilker Basbug, admits that military might alone will not fix Turkey's Kurdish problem.
Excerpts include details of two separate planned coups concocted in 2004 that were quashed by the then chief of the general staff, Hilmi Ozkok.
Also there was the Chief of the General Staff, Sir Peter Wall.
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The president does indeed have sweeping powers not just of veto but to choose judges, university heads and the chief of the general staff.
This week General Ilker Basbug, the chief of the general staff, admitted that the raids on the Special Forces Command were carried out within the law.
Putin also met over the weekend with the chief of the general staff, Anatoly Kvashnin, and Viktor Komogorov, deputy director of the FSB, the successor agency to the KGB.
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.
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.
One big newspaper said that Mr Yeltsin had told Mr Putin to do this and to dismiss both the chief of the general staff, General Anatoly Kvashnin, and the head of Russia's foreign intelligence service, Vyacheslav Trubnikov.
Some hawkish generals were retired, for all their kicks and screams, by the chief of the general staff, General Hilmi Ozkok, a liberal by Turkish army standards, and one who does not share many generals' distaste for Mr Erdogan over his Islamist past.
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After China finally resumed relations to the relief of American officials General Chen Bingde, the chief of the PLA General Staff, came to Washington, where he arrogantly proceeded to lecture his hosts.
It is the prerogative of the defense minister to select the chief of general staff.
As the threats against Israel mount from all directions, the job of the IDF Chief of General Staff is becoming more challenging by the day.
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.
David Cameron said that the Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir David Richards was examining ideas for military co-operation with African countries.
In light of these awesome challenges, the IDF's next chief of general staff will have to have the attitude of a revolutionary as he guides the IDF through massive change, and commands it in complex and perhaps existential battles.
He rose through the ranks to become a brigadier general and the army's chief of staff in 1970 during the military regime of President General Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio.
Yet Mr Erdogan has rushed to the defence of the current chief of general staff, Necdet Ozel, thanking him for his pledge to pay compensation to the families of the Sirnak victims.
Chief of the Defence Staff, General Sir David Richards, said ministers had not taken into account reduced force sizes.
General Andrei Nikolaev, the border guards' head, could be won over by asking him to be chief of the new-look general staff.
Last month Rawi Sultani, the son of a prominent Israeli Arab attorney, was convicted of collecting intelligence information for Hizbullah concerning the whereabouts of Chief of General Staff Lt.
The British and Indian foreign ministers discussed this week's visit to Pakistan by the British Chief of the Defence Staff, General Sir Charles Guthrie, which has caused some disquiet in India.
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