ANKARA - The exposure of the plan hatched by senior military officials - called Operation Sledgehammer - to destabilize Turkey's government, and the subsequent arrest of high-ranking officers, demonstrates the growing strength of Turkey's democracy. Moreover, prosecutors' efforts to uncover the truth are not a campaign to discredit the Turkish army, as some allege; nor has the exposure of Sledgehammer led to an emerging showdown between secularists and Islamists.