RE: Merc Guild - Not Really

> > >Don Maddox sent me a URL for an article written by someone in a
> > >western
> > >military who encountered Turks as part of the UN forces in the
> > >Balkans, and
> > >spoke quite highly of the professionalism of the Turkish unit.
> > >
> >
> >I have heard second hand that they stress professionalism and
> >non-political armies more then most of the third world.

Ahem...

Pardon me if I am about to voice an 'Atkinsonism' <wf>

It was also the Turkish army under Attaturk (sp?) that was responsible
for
the Armenian Genocide...

David