Turkey’s Erdogan files legal complaint against daily over Syria report
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has filed a complaint against a newspaper for publishing a report on the alleged provision of arms by Ankara to Syria to be used by the militants in the Arab country.
Erdogan accused daily Cumhuriyet of disseminating images and information that were both “contrary to the truth” and “secret.”
The newspaper published on May 29 an online story with images allegedly showing state National Intelligence Organization (MIT) trucks carrying weapons and ammunition to foreign-backed militants inside Syria.
In a TV interview, Erdogan called the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Can Dundar, a spy, threatening to severely punish the people responsible for the report.
“The person who made the story will pay a heavy price. I will not let him get away with it,” Erdogan said on TRT television late Sunday.
In response to the Turkish president’s harsh words, Cumhuriyet ran an article, a part of which read, “We are responsible… for the story revealing the truth about an incident that was denied by state officials for months.”
The paper went on to say that the published footage was proof that Ankara was indeed arming the militants in Syria.
Turkey’s judiciary, at the behest of the government, had already launched a probe against the daily on charges of obtaining secret information and involvement in espionage activities.
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