ABSTRACT
The military in Turkey played a special role both in the Ottoman and Republican periods. In the early Republic, the military was rendered to a subservient role. With the start of the multi-party period (1945), the military assumed an activist posture, having a concern that the new politicians might not been successful in guarding the Republican reforms, in particular laicity, and played an activist role in politics. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the military began to doubt the wisdom of their interventions in politics while the politicians managed to put an end to their activist role in politics.
