ISTANBUL
The chief public prosecutor's office in the district of Bakirkoy in Istanbul asked the Justice Ministry on Wednesday to request that Interpol issue a red notice to arrest two former prosecutors wanted for attempting to overthrow the government.
Zekeriya Oz and Celal Kara, who were involved in a 2013 corruption investigation that targeted senior ministers, fled to Armenia via Georgia last week, shortly before an arrest warrant was issued by a criminal court in Turkey for them.
Last Friday, Turkish media reported that Oz and Kara had traveled from Armenia to Germany.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday: “I believe there will most probably be a red notice issued for them.”
The former prosecutors are said to have formed a criminal organization and attempted to overthrow the government by force in a plot allegedly masterminded by U.S.-based preacher Fethullah Gulen.
The Turkish government has denounced the 2013 probe as a "dirty plot" allegedly constructed by "parallel state" -- a purported clandestine group of Turkish bureaucrats and senior officials embedded in the country's institutions, including the judiciary and police.
