13 May 2016•Update: 15 May 2016
ANKARA
The Ankara Prosecutor's Office on Friday filed charges against three suspects accused of cheating on a 2010 civil service recruitment exam (KPSS).
Ibrahim Kan, Sule Ulker, and Ibrahim Usta are charged with being members of Gulenist terror organization (FETO), multiple forgeries of official documents, and multiple acts of fraud to the detriment of public institutions.
Ankara’s 2nd High Criminal Court set the hearing for the suspects for Aug. 4.
The prosecutor’s indictment said reports, gendarme and police experts, and statements by the suspects, plaintiffs, and witnesses make clear that questions from the exam's educational sciences, general culture, and general ability sections were obtained ahead of the test.
In March 2015 police launched their first operation in the case in 19 provinces, including capital Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Eskisehir, Sakarya, Isparta, Sivas, Samsun and Bursa, and hundreds of suspects were detained.
The prosecutor's office said a total of 616 suspects, who were allegedly involved in the fraud case, were all current civil service servants on active duty.
The officers were alleged to be “parallel state” members, which the Turkish government accuses of penetrating key positions of responsibility across the country in order to undermine it.
The "parallel state" is designated by the government as a group of Turkish bureaucrats and senior officials embedded in the country's institutions, including the judiciary and the police, who allegedly seek to undermine the current Turkish government.
