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Turkey ups anti-graft moves against police

Jan 08, 2014, 9:18 AM EST
Government sacked deputy top cop, provincial chiefs; seen as aimed at Erdogan opponent Gulen.
JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP/Getty

In a move that some analysts see as yet more evidence of P.M. Recep Tayyip Erdogan's creeping auotcratic tendencies, the Turkish government kept pressing on its alleged anti-corruption measures aimed at the country's law enforcement. The purge hit capital Ankara and Kurdish stronghold Diyarbakir.

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