The awaited measures to introduce a civil control of the Turkish army - second largest armed forces in NATO - seemed to have been implemented on 02.08.2011 when four new generals were designated to lead the country's armed forces.
Their predecessors quit last week in protest at the jailing of officers in coup conspiracy cases. General Necdet Ozel, previously head of the paramilitary gendarmerie, was named as new chief of general staff.
Rumors about rising tensions were followed by news about Turkish security forces that stopped a convoy of trucks carrying a large quantity of weapons and ammunition in the city of Kilis, near the Turkish-Syrian border.
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