E-memorandum
Sign in to savethumb|right|250px|Screenshot of an e-memorandum (April 27, 2007) The e-memorandum () was a controversial set of statements released on the website of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces in April 2007 that weighed in on the Turkish presidential elections in 2007. The way the statements were written caused concerns that the Turkish military would intervene in the election against leading candidate Abdullah Gül in defence of secularism. Turkey's presidential office was regarded as the guardian of the country's secular system; the fact that Gül's wife wore an Islamic headscarf, as well a
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6 sectionsContents
- Statement
- Response from the 59th Government
- International reaction to the e-memorandum
- Aftermath
- See also
- References
thumb|right|250px|Screenshot of an e-memorandum (April 27, 2007) The e-memorandum () was a controversial set of statements released on the website of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces in April 2007 that weighed in on the Turkish presidential elections in 2007. The way the statements were written caused concerns that the Turkish military would intervene in the election against leading candidate Abdullah Gül in defence of secularism. Turkey's presidential office was regarded as the guardian of the country's secular system; the fact that Gül's wife wore an Islamic headscarf, as well as Gül's own history in political Islam, turned the elections into a political crisis.
==Statement== During the crisis, on 27 April 2007, statements were published on Turkish Armed Forces official website regarding the Turkish presidential elections. One statement read:
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