Turkish police purge reaches top ranks amid graft scandal
By Gulsen Solaker and Orhan Coskun
ANKARA Wed Jan 8, 2014 10:11am EST
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(Reuters) - Turkey's deputy police chief has been sacked, the most senior commander yet targeted in a purge of a force heavily influenced by a cleric Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan accuses of plotting to seize the levers of state power.
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