ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a historical analysis of the early military and security establishments in Turkey since the Ottomans until the rise of Erdogan. In this chapter, the historical account of the development of the military as a political actor after the fall of the Ottoman empire and the new republic that established by Ataturk is explained in details while touching upon the relation between the military and civilians upon four different military interventions; 1950;1971;1980, and the soft coup of 1997. This chapter also explores the rise of the Islamic factor in Turkish politics and the subsequent shine of the AKP while contextualizing the history of the Turkish policy in the civil-military equation.
