By The Daily Journalist.
Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet published today (Friday) images that suggest Turkey tried to introduce on Syrian trucks weapons hidden among boxes of medicines. The Turkish court of justice will conduct an investigation regarding the claims of the Turkish newspaper.
On January 19, 2014, prosecutors in the southern province of Adana ordered a heavy truck owned by the secret services (MIT) to stop. In previous weeks, similar trucks also were arrested.
In the towing of Adana, according to the video and photographs transcended, there were several metal containers. Inside, under boxes of medicines, agents discovered all kinds of light and heavy weapons factories coming from Russia.
According to ‘Cumhuriyet’, the police found a thousand artillery shells, 80,000 units of light and heavy ammunition and hundreds of grenade launchers. The newspaper says that this material was intended to oppose the Syrian government of Bashar Assad fighters and help ISIS.
News of the alleged discovery of weapons in trucks involving MIT in January 2014, prompted the judge to impose censorship order of any information related to the event. The government said that there were no weapons, but humanitarian aid to the Turkmen population in Syria.
Today President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, then Prime Minister described as “treason” the inspection of these vehicles. The Turkish government considered this an affront raid of the sect of the influential theologian former ally and now bitter enemy, Fethullah Gulen.
‘Treason against Turkey’
This year four prosecutors were jailed who ordered the registration of the trucks. They are accused of “attempting to overthrow the Turkish government by force or coercion and exposing information about policing and security”.
More than thirty gendarmes who participated in the inspection of vehicles also face charges related to the attempted coup and military espionage. For the government, they all belong to the “parallel state” next to Gülen.
Between 2012 and 2013, during some inroad travels into areas of Syria very close to Turkey, opponents of Assad militiamen had spoken to the world of receiving weapons from Turkey. A rebel command reported receiving Kalashnnikov type rifles.
International media described in the past, routes of introduction of weapons to Syria by Turkish soil. The recipients were not Islamist groups, although it has been shown that the Islamic state has finished taking control of them.
Turkey has always denied having delivered weapons to the Syrian rebels. In previous years Turkey was accused of giving logistical cover to various militias, including the Al Nusra Front, an arm of Al Qaeda in Syria, in their fight against troops loyal to Assad.
The controversy broke out just over a week before the general election, the third to the polls in two years. The days before the above processes are also lived amidst protests related to corruption or the Turkish action in Syria.
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), in slight decline according to surveys after more than a decade in power, is holding its absolute majority. The elections are held in a climate of high tension, the following publication on Friday.
Turkey stands accused from within and outside harass from the press. In this context, the Istanbul prosecutor has opened an investigation into the ‘Cumhuriyet’, directed by noted journalist Can Dundar, for having published the controversial images of the truck.
