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Erdogan vows to punish journalist behind Syria trucks video
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 02 - 06 - 2015

ISTANBUL — 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.
Erdogan has said the trucks stopped that day belonged to MIT and were carrying aid to Turkmens in Syria. He has said prosecutors had no authority to search MIT vehicles and were part of what he calls a “parallel state” run by his ally-turned-foe Fethullah Gulen, a US-based Islamic cleric whom Erdogan says is bent on discrediting him and the government.
“These allegations against the national intelligence agency and this illegal operation is some kind of espionage activity. This paper is now involved in this espionage,” Erdogan said, adding that he had instructed his lawyer to file a lawsuit.
The state-run Anadolu news agency said on Friday that the Istanbul chief prosecutor's office had launched an investigation into Cumhuriyet's editor-in-chief Can Dundar under counter-terrorism laws.
Reuters could not reach Dundar for comment, but he defended the newspaper's coverage on his Twitter account.
“We are journalists, not civil servants. Our duty is not to hide the dirty secrets of the state but to hold those accountable on behalf of the people,” he said in a tweet on Monday.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu also said at the weekend that the trucks were carrying aid for Turkmens but declined to comment on their content.
“It is nobody's business what was inside the trucks. Yes there were serious clashes in Syria and we helped the Turkmens,” Davutoglu said on Sunday in a Haberturk television interview. — Reuters


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