The annual meeting of the Supreme Military Council -- chaired by Prime Minister Binali Yildirim and including the
top brass -- followed the dishonourable discharge of nearly 1,700 military personnel over their alleged roles in the abortive putsch on July 15-16.
Maj Gen Thompson, who led 3 Commando Brigade in the Falklands, and other former
top brass ridiculed claims by Mr Cameron that Moscow and Islamic State would be boosted by Brexit.
According to a senior official, who attended the meeting but did not wish to be named, Bassi said the
top brass has been receiving information about corruption at the additional DCsP and DCP levels since the last few months.
Given a squeezed political position, with the legislative body now looking threateningly to reopen graft files and curb his exercise of powers back to constitutional settings, he may be seeing a strong option -- while strengthening his alliance with the
top brass on the basis of Kurdophobia -- to pave the way for an "Islamist-Nationalist" sort of coalition with the MHP.
A source said: "At first, it looked like there would be some kind of strange hat sharing going on among the
top brass. They are now saying not all of the 13 most senior officers need new hats."
Now
top brass will need to get Defence Secretary Philip Hammond to agree.
Kolkata: The
top brass of the BCCI were huddled in a series of meetings during the day to discuss the raging IPL spot-fixing issue amid indications that the defiant N Srinivasan will hold on to his position as BCCI president.
FOR years I've been sniping at military
top brass for their brass neck in spending six-figure sums on personal servants.
The
top brass cull, which will take two years to carry out, should save the Ministry of Defence around pounds 3.8m a year.
The Tory
top brass were, we're led to believe, keen to support Liverpoolborn MP Nadine Dorries''s amendment which said that counselling for women wanting an abortion had to be provided by an independent organisation, not the one which would carry out the abortion.
Sheikh Ahmad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah, and Chief of Staff of the Saudi army Saleh bin Ali bin Muhammed Al-Muhayya who arrived earlier today to the country, in addition to Kuwaiti military
top brass.Al-Muhayya who arrived here earlier said -- in a statement to KUNA -- upon his arrival, "it is an honor for us, and for Saudi military
top brass, and also for retired officers who played a role in Kuwait's liberation war to receive such invitation from the Kuwaiti armed forces to take part in Kuwait's national celebrations." Finally, Al-Muhayya -- who was received upon his arrival here by Chief of Staff of the Kuwaiti army Lieut.
Despite massive cuts to the armed forces (17,000 personnel leaving) the
top brass mounted a fierce rearguard action to stop their allowances for public school education being axed.