ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's deputy police chief was sacked overnight, the most senior commander yet targeted in the purge of a force heavily influenced by a cleric Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan accuses of plotting to seize the levers of state power.
Erdogan's AK Party sent plans to parliament allowing government more say over appointment of prosecutors and judges. Erdogan argues that a judiciary and police in the sway of the Hizmet (Service) movement of cleric Fethullah Gulen contrived a graft investigation now shaking his administration.