Turban Cancelled YAS Dinner

General Staff and Ground Forces Commandership excluded the dinners that were given in the previous years from the agenda. Therefore, President Ahmet Necdet Sezer will host the sole dinner in the Cankaya (Presidential) Kiosk in the course of four-day-long YAS meetings. Erdogan will attend the dinner alone. However Erdogan will attend the lunches, to which the spouses are not invited, throughout the YAS meetings.

During the February 28 process in 1996 there was the “raki” crisis. Then-Naval Forces Commander Guven Erkaya ordered raki, violating the ban on alcoholic drinks.