ANKARA
An arrest warrant has been issued for two suspects sought in connection with a probe into alleged fraud involving Turkey's Public Personnel Selection Examination, or KPSS.
The warrants for Berat Kosucu and Mehmet Hanefi Sozen, who are believed to be abroad, were submitted to Ankara's 4th Criminal Court of Peace on Thursday, prosecution officials said.
The suspects are said to be among the founders of an association which distributed KPSS test papers to thousands of people in 2010 in advance of their exams for political reasons.
Prosecutors said that surveillance of phone calls between scores of suspects believed to have been involved in the exam fraud showed Sozen held a high-ranking position in the organization.
Kosucu is accused of e-mailing exam questions another person.
Turkish police detained scores of people in late March as part of a cheating probe into the KPSS exam and allegedly found involvement of "parallel state" members, which the Turkish government accuses of penetrating key positions of responsibility across the country in order to undermine it.
Police detained 75 people, including 40 civil servants, in simultaneous operations in 19 provinces, including Istanbul, Bursa, Isparta, Samsun, Sakarya, Sivas, Eskisehir, Corum, Batman and Izmir in the operation.
The suspects face charges of being member of a criminal organization, document fraud, illegal and harmful activity in public institutions, destroying criminal evidence and abuse of power.
