Turkish PM meet army chief amid crisis over role of Islam

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with the head of the country’s armed forces today, a week after the military threatened to intervene in an ongoing presidential election if it thought secularism was in danger.

The military, which harbours deep suspicions of Erdogan and his Islamic-rooted party, became a major player in the elections last week when it said it was ready to take action as the “absolute defender of secularism” in Turkey.