Turkmenistan's president has dismissed the ex-Soviet republic's influential security chief, official media said Tuesday, according to AP. The head of the presidential security service, Akmurad Redzhepov, was dismissed by President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov's decree «in connection with his transfer to another job,» state television said. Redzhepov's replacement was not announced. Redzhepov served as security chief to late President Saparmurat Niyazov for much of his 21-year rule and was seen as one of his most loyal and influential men who also controlled the country's security agencies.
