Turkish daily Cumhuriyet released footage on the guns that MIT (Turkish Intelligence Agency) transported from Turkey into Syria. The newspaper is now under investigation for charges of “terrorism”.

The newspaper released footage of guns, mortar shells and ammunition as they were being transported with MIT (Turkish Intelligence Agency) trucks from Turkey into Syria on 19 January 2014. According to the Cumhuriyet article from yesterday, 1000 mortar shells, 1000 cannon shells, 50000 machine gun ammos and 30000 heavy machine gun ammos were discovered during the search.

Then prime-minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had claimed that the trucks were transporting not guns but food supply. Other government officials had made similar claims and argued that the trucks were carrying humanitarian aid to Turkmens in Iraq and Syria. However, these claims were falsified by the Turkmen front in Iraq later on. On May 16, AKP parliamentarian candidate Yasin Aktay confessed to the transportation of the guns and ammunitions into Syria but argued that they were sent to the Free Syrian Army.

“TERRORISM” CHARGES FOR THE COVERAGE

Cumhuriyet newspaper is now under investigation for “terrorism” charges for releasing the footage of the truck search that was recorded on January 19, 2014. Nearly 15 prosecutors and gendarme officials who were involved in the truck search are all imprisoned now under charges of conspiracy against the state.