“MİT Trucks” Investigation Launched against Cumhuriyet

Today, Cumhuriyet Daily Newspaper published the photos of ammo including mortar shell, shell and shotgun shell found in MİT Truck stopped in Adana province (South central Anatolia). An investigation has been launched against Cumhuriyet Newspaper.

National Intelligence Organization (MİT) Trucks had been stopped while carrying ammo to Syria upon the instruction of the prosecutor. Photos of ammo have been published in Cumhuriyet Newspaper and Cumhuriyet website. It is seen from the published photos, cardboard boxes which placed inside of steel boxes had medicines inside of them. However, the ammo had been hidden under the medicines.

In January 2014, it was indicated that MİT Trucks were carrying ammo From Turkey to Syria and trucks were stopped in Adana and Hatay provinces but the government and security units denied it and defended the trucks saying “Trucks were carrying aid to Turkmens.”

The case was declared to proceed no further and the prosecutors and gendarmerie who stopped the trucks were arrested. (AS/BD)

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