Reuters June 27, 2013 - 17:10 By Parisa Hafezi ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government, which faced a wave of street protests and riots this month, moved on Thursday to amend an article of the Armed Forces charter cited by generals in the past to justify coups as defence of public order. Since he was first elected in 2002, Erdogan has radically cut back the power of a military that had toppled four governments in forty years. The last administration felled, in 1997, was led by an Islamist party to which Erdogan belonged. Deputy prime minister Bekir Bozdag told reporters the government had submitted proposals to parliament to amend article 35 of the...
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