Posted on 05/29/2015 4:00:26 AM PDT by markomalley
ISTANBUL: Images and video footage allegedly showing trucks belonging to Turkey's state intelligence service carrying weapons en route to jihadist rebels in Syria were published Friday in a Turkish daily.
The Turkish government has vehemently denied earlier claims that it is arming rebels fighting in Syria and accused dozens of prosecutors, soldiers and security officers involved in the searching of trucks of attempting to bring it down by suggesting that it is doing so.
Earlier this month, Turkey arrested four prosecutors who ordered searches in a similar incident in January 2014 and they are now in prison pending trial.
More than 30 security officers involved in that interception also face charges including military espionage and attempting to overthrow the government.
The footage published on opposition Cumhuriyet daily's website Friday shows inspectors searching a metallic container watched by security officers, a prosecutor and sniffer dogs.
The officials first open cardboard boxes marked as "fragile" and full of antibiotics. But under those boxes they find dozens of mortar shells, the video, shot by an anonymous bystander, appears to show.
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The onset of a great Islamic war has been ignored by the statements of Turkish PM Erogan who has no longer declared Turks neutral. Envisualing a great islamic Sultanate including the Kurds (which historically was led by a Kurd) but taken oven by the Turks ruling the region.
Thank the fool Obama.
USA did too. What’s the big deal? That is Obama’s plan.
McCain's freedom fighters?
Thanaks Turkey -- the last thing anyone wants in a muzzie civil war is for one side to run out of ammo.
Do you have any feelings for the Christians being genocided in Syria?
Are you in favor of the huge numbers of civilian casualties from this war?
A terrorism investigation has been launched against the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet for publishing a video allegedly revealing the arms Ankara was sending to Syria, an accusation the government has vehemently denied with claims those shipments were simply aid to unaffiliated groups.
The political opposition alleges that the trucks were transporting arms to terrorist groups in Syria, while the government claims that they were simply delivering humanitarian aid such as medicine to various ethnic Turkmen groups in Syria.
The government has also been accusing anyone who claims Ankara had aided terrorists of terrorism. The prosecutors who ordered the trucks be searched along with the military officers who conducted the search have all been arrested on terrorism-related charges.
The genocide of the Christians in Iraq and Syria is a great tragedy of our time. It is untold - and unheard.
I hope that the people who are encouraging Turkey’s adventurous expansion have thought this out, long term.
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