{"id":3902,"date":"2018-07-09T23:45:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T23:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3902"},"modified":"2018-07-09T23:45:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T23:45:53","slug":"erdogan-apoints-general-akar-as-turkeys-new-defense-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/07\/09\/erdogan-apoints-general-akar-as-turkeys-new-defense-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"ERDOGAN APOINTS GENERAL AKAR AS TURKEY\u2019S NEW DEFENSE MINISTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/07\/AKAR-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3904\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/07\/AKAR-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/07\/AKAR-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/07\/AKAR-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/07\/AKAR-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/07\/AKAR-1-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/07\/AKAR-1-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/07\/AKAR-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/07\/AKAR-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Defense News<\/p>\n<p>By: Burak Ege Bekdil<\/p>\n<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on July 9 announced his new Cabinet, appointing the head of the Turkish military as the new defense minister.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time a civilian government in Turkey has picked an active-duty military commander as defense minister.<\/p>\n<p>Army Gen. Hulusi Akar will take over from Nurettin Canikli.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the top dossiers Akar will have to deal with immediately include a potential U.S. arms embargo on Turkey, including deliveries of the multinational stealth fighter F-35; deployment of the Russian-made S-400 air-defense and anti-missile systems on Turkish soil, a first time for a NATO ally; development of the TF-X, Turkey\u2019s first indigenous fighter jet; the serial production of the Altay, Turkey\u2019s first indigenous new-generation main battle tank; and scores of other procurement programs.<\/p>\n<p>Image sourced: Turkish Time<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2018\/07\/09\/erdogan-appoints-active-duty-military-commander-as-turkeys-defense-minister\/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=Socialflow&amp;utm_source=twitter.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Defense News By: Burak Ege Bekdil Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on July 9 announced his new Cabinet, appointing the head of the Turkish military as the new defense minister. This is the first time a civilian government in Turkey has picked an active-duty military commander as defense minister. Army Gen. Hulusi Akar will&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/07\/09\/erdogan-apoints-general-akar-as-turkeys-new-defense-minister\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ERDOGAN APOINTS GENERAL AKAR AS TURKEY\u2019S NEW DEFENSE MINISTER<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3905,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions\/3905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}