Leaked documents: Erdogan’s regime tried to suppress evidence of its involvement in providing weapons to terrorist organizations

 Leaked documents from the files of the 23rd Supreme Criminal Court in Ankara revealed information about the attempt by Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime to suppress evidence of his involvement in supplying weapons to the terrorist organization “ISIS”.

The new evidence confirms the close relationship between the Erdogan regime and terrorist organizations in Syria and Iraq.

The Swedish website Noreedek Monitor published a report containing leaked documents that revealed that several explosions occurred in the Turkish army’s weapons depots that took place between the Turkish cities of Afyon and Urfa and sites in the territories under Turkish control in the north of the island of Cyprus, with the aim of camouflaging and erasing the evidence proving the involvement of the Erdogan regime in providing the organization.

According to the testimony of Major Ahmed Ozcan, head of the Intelligence Assessment Center in the Turkish Military Intelligence, revealed one of the aspects of the secret relations between the Erdogan regime and its intelligence services on the one hand and terrorist organizations in Syria and Iraq on the other hand.

The Turkish newspaper, Tarf, previously revealed in an investigation in September 2014 that a large logistical support of MKE products had reached terrorist organizations in Syria.

The Erdogan’s security services had taken the initiative to close the paper and imprison their editor-in-chief Ahmed Altan at the time, in addition to imprisoning the chief investigative reporter, Muhammad. Baransu was charged with trumped up charges.

The Nordic Monitor report indicated that the terrorist organization “ISIS” uses Turkish munitions .

The documents leaked from the court also revealed that (MKE) company underwent a parliamentary investigation in 2014 to reveal how its equipment reached the terrorist organization “ISIS” and whether it had received money from the terrorist organization in return as it was subjected to a previous criminal investigation in 2013.

13 people were arrested during the first stage of the investigation, but they were released later. The investigation showed that the people who smuggled the chemicals needed to produce sarin did not face any difficulties, what proves that the Turkish intelligence was aware of their activities.

Ozcan was arrested on July 17, 2016 on charges of involvement in the alleged coup while he was in the hospital awaiting a second surgery after he was injured in the leg and hand while confronting what was believed to be an armed attack on the headquarters of the Gendarmerie Forces in Ankara. 

Inas Abdulkareem