Posted on 06/01/2015 9:45:53 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to punish the editor of a newspaper which published video footage it said showed the MIT state intelligence agency helping send weapons to Syria.
The Cumhuriyet newspaper published footage on its website on Friday which it said showed gendarmerie and police officers opening crates of what it described as weapons and ammunition on the back of three trucks belonging to MIT.
"The individual who has reported this as an exclusive story will pay a high price for this," Erdogan said in a television interview with state broadcaster TRT late on Sunday.
"I will not let this go."
Reuters reported on May 21 that witnesses and prosecutors have alleged that MIT helped deliver arms to parts of Syria under Islamist rebel control during late 2013 and early 2014, quoting a prosecutor and court testimony from gendarmerie officers.
Cumhuriyet said the video was from Jan. 19, 2014 but did not say how it had obtained the footage
(Excerpt) Read more at english.alarabiya.net ...
ISIS has been slaughtering the Shia Turkmen in Syria, including 700 men, women and children in one incident last year.
Source is now GONE!
Alternate source for vanished article.
http://news.yahoo.com/turkeys-erdogan-vows-punish-journalist-behind-syria-trucks-091253816.html
Interesting that they pulled it from there.
Still seems to be up here:
Another source>
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/01/us-mideast-crisis-turkey-arms-idUSKBN0OH1V220150601
Are these the rebels we support against assad, the rebels who became isis, the rebels who we want to fight isis,I am confused?? Maybe no difference.
I think that we have a winner!
Bkmrk.
Is the story true?
Reenactment of Armenian genocide....
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan is the spitting image of our own obammy.
Both are mooselimbs hoping for a world wide mooselimb takeover and both are working for just that idea.
Both are mookabooking a hol=es.
Erdogan is a Turkish nationalist who uses religion to appeal to ignorant peasant voters. He’s interested in his own power and nothing more.
Obama spawned ISIS.
He trained, armed, supplied many of them.
Last thing he wants to do is defeat these Butchering Islamist Bastards.
My bet is that the original source which was in Arabic was hosted in Turkey. Erdogan has no tolerance for criticism of the standing governenment. All Islamists are like that.
” and nothing more.”?
I don’t think so.
He is trying to resurrect the Ottoman empire.
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