How a Turkish general’s smile is now a key election issue
There’s not much time left before what could become Turkey’s most consequential elections. On June 24, about 60 million people are expected to vote in what could lead to a regime [...]
Metin Gurcan
Metin Gurcan is a columnist for Al-Monitor’s Turkey Pulse. He served in Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Iraq as a Turkish military adviser from 2002 to 2008. After resigning from the military, he became an Istanbul-based independent security analyst. Gurcan obtained his PhD in 2016 with a dissertation on changes in the Turkish military over the preceding decade. He has published extensively in Turkish and foreign academic journals. On Twitter: @Metin4020
