Supreme Military Council

A High-level meeting of Turkey's military leadership began on Wednesday, and is expected to focus on senior armed-forces appointments, Daily Sabah reports. 

The Supreme Military Council (YAŞ) meeting started at Çankaya Palace with Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım chairing the event.

"The organization has been able to have legal arrangements done by the political authority." This is a sentence from the indictment into the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), written by the Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office. 

The government took over all appointment rights in the military with three sweeping new state of emergency decrees issued late on Jan. 6, with the authority for the formation of cadres in the General Staff transferred to Turkey's Defense Ministry. 

The commander of Turkey's special forces, who had a crucial role in thwarting the July 15 failed coup attempt, has said he is currently in Syria within the scope of the Euphrates Shield Operation in northern Syria and cannot attend a session of the parliamentary commission formed to investigate the failed coup.  

The commander of Turkey's special forces, who had a crucial role in thwarting the July 15 failed coup attempt, has said he is currently in Syria within the scope of the Euphrates Shield Operation in northern Syria and cannot attend a session of the parliamentary commission formed to investigate the failed coup.  

Members of the Gülen movement were able to infiltrate the Turkish Armed Forces largely due to a lack of intelligence information from the National Intelligence Organization (MİT), according to former Chief of General Staff Gen. İlker Başbuğ.

The Turkish military had a long list of high-ranking soldiers linked to the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen two weeks before the July 15 attempted coup, former gendarmerie commander Galip Mendi has told a parliamentary panel formed to investigate the failed attempt. 

An Istanbul court ordered the release of three generals and an admiral early on Oct. 14, marking the first release of high-ranking soldiers as part of the ongoing investigation into the failed coup attempt of July 15.

Anadolu Agency posted a story on the "compassionate slap" threat from the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ). They came across this concept during the FETÖ investigations conducted by the Chief Prosecutor's Office at the Aegean province of Uşak. "From the statements of the detainees, it was determined that especially after the Dec. 17 and Dec.

A group of high ranking Syrian rebel commanders convened in the Reyhanl? town in Turkey's southern province of Hatay to found a High Military Council to coordinate their actions, Anadolu Agency reported on July 19. 

Members of the 30-man council of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) were reportedly present at the meeting.