Erdogan's grip on Turkey tightens as he retakes control of ruling party

Ankara

TURKEY'S President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday took back control of the ruling party he founded, a step that gives the nation's most powerful man additional authority to appoint loyalists to parliament lists and party posts across the nation.

Just a month after a vote approved transferring Turkey's centre of political power to the presidency from parliament, the AK Party's leadership and tens o…