Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, wearing a dust-free garment, attends a ceremony to mark the shipment of the Turksat-4A satellite at Mitsubishi Electric Corp's Kamakura Works, the satellite production facility, in Kamakura, south of Tokyo January 8, 2014. REUTERS/Issei Kato
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.
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