General Isik Kosaner, the head of the Turkish armed forces, has quit along with the heads of the ground, naval and air forces.The country's state-run Anatolia news agency said the military chiefs wanted to retire because of tensions with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the recently re-elected prime minister.
Anatolia reported Kosaner as resigning "as he saw it as necessary". This is the first time so many top commanders in Turkey have stepped down at once.
In the first official reaction, Binali Yildirim, the transportation minister, said "the state would continue to function".
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