Erdogan seeks aggravated life sentence for Cumhuriyet editor-in-chief over publishing video of Turkish arms delivery to Syria

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ANKARA-President of the Turkish regime Recep Tayyip Erdogan is demanding a life sentence, an aggravated life sentence and an additional 42-year term of imprisonment for the editor-in-chief of the Cumhuriyet newspaper, the daily that published video footage of arms being transferred to Syria on trucks operated by the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MİT).

The Turkish Today’s Zaman newspaper reported that Erdogan filed a criminal complaint against Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Can Dundar on Tuesday after prosecutors launched a probe investigating the newspaper and Dundar for the publication.

The footage released by Cumhuriyet on Friday showed gendarmerie officers and police officers opening crates on the back of trucks that contained weapons and ammunition sent to terrorists in Syria in January 2014. This footage contradicts the government’s earlier claim that the trucks were only carrying humanitarian aid to Turkmens in the war-torn country and confirms the Turkish regimes’ collusion in supporting the terrorist groups fighting the Syrian government.

Erdogan has lambasted Dundar for the coverage, promising in televised remarks not to let the journalist go unpunished. “He will pay a heavy price,” Erdogan said on state broadcaster TRT on Sunday evening.

The trucks in question were intercepted by gendarmes on two occasions in January 2014 after prosecutors received tips that they were illegally carrying arms to Syria. There have been reports that the arms were going to extremist groups fighting against the Syrian government. Ankara, on the other hand, has insisted that the trucks were carrying aid to Syrian Turkmens and branded their interception an act of “treason” and “espionage.”

The photos in question, taken from the video footage and published on the daily’s front page, show containers filled with mortar shells and ammunition underneath boxes of medicine. The daily also published a video showing the containers on trucks being opened and searched by gendarmes.

Cumhuriyet said the trucks’ cargo included 1,000 shells, 1,000 mortar shells, 50,000 machine gun bullets and 30,000 heavy weapons bullets.

H.M

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