Turkey has issued an arrest warrant for former footballer Hakan Şükür in relation to the recent failed coup aimed at unseating President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Mr Şükür is accused by prosecutors of "being a member of an armed terror group", a reference to the organisation of US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen who Ankara claims was behind the coup, state-run Anadolu news agency said.
It added that Mr Şükür and his family had left Turkey last year.
The 44-year-old striker retired from playing football in 2008.
He was elected in local elections in 2011 in Istanbul for the Justice and Development Party but resigned two years later and served as an Independent.
When he married his first wife in 2002, the ceremony was shown on Turkish television such was his popularity.
In February he was charged with insulting President Erdogan on Twitter.
Meanwhile, Turkey's government is working on a decree to meet demand for new air force pilots, Defence Minister Fikri Isik said, after a purge of thousands of military following last month's failed coup.
Turkey, NATO's second-largest armed forces and a partner in the fight against so-called Islamic State, dismissed or arrested tens of thousands of soldiers, officials and bureaucrats since the coup bid, in which rogue troops commandeered jets, helicopters and tanks in an attempt to seize power.
Mr Isik told Haberturk television that Turkey's role in the US-led coalition against Islamic State will continue without interruption following the coup.
He said the decree for pilots would be published very soon.
The United States uses the Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey to launch attacks against IS militants.
Western allies are concerned President Erdogan's purge of the military and government may impact Turkey's stability.
Turkish officials have been angered by what they see as the West's focus on the crackdown on alleged coup sympathisers and a perceived lack of sympathy over the violent coup in which 240 people were killed.
The defence minister also said the three Turkish military attaches - two from Greece and another from Bosnia - still at large following last month's failed coup were now believed to be in Italy.
Turkish officials say two military attaches fled from Greece to Italy, and other diplomats are on the run after being recalled as part of the post-coup investigation.
Two generals captured in Dubai and another in Kuwait have been sent back.
