Senior Turkish MP: Ankara Supervising Flow of Heavy Arms to Militants in Syria.

Senior Turkish MP: Ankara Supervising Flow of Heavy Arms to Militants in Syria. (Fars).

The foreign-backed militants fighting against the Syrian government in Syria are receiving heavy arms via Turkey under the supervision of the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT), a senior Turkish lawmaker disclosed on Saturday.

"The terrorists who attacked the city of Kassab (near the Turkish border) in Lattakia  (in Northern Syria) have used Turkish soil to smuggle heavy weapons to Syria and this measure has taken place under the supervision of Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MIT)," Turkish opposition MP Refiq Eryilmaz told the Syrian state news agency.

He underlined that supporters of terrorism in Syria should claim responsibility for their crimes in Syria.

Ankara has on several occasions sent arms to Syrian militants to help them fight against the Damascus government.

In one of such cases in June 2013, Ankara sent 400 tons of arms supplied by some Persian Gulf states to the militants in Syria.

"Twenty trailers crossed from Turkey and are being distributed to arms depots for several brigades across the North," said Mohammad Salam, a rebel operative who witnessed the crossing from an undisclosed location in Hatay at the time.

The delivery was being called the single biggest weapons cache to reach the rebels since the unrest began more than two years ago.

The consignment - mostly ammunition for shoulder-fired weapons and anti-aircraft machine guns - came into Northern Syria via the Turkish province of Hatay and was already being handed out, the sources added.

Saudi Arabia, Qatar and several other Arab Persian Gulf states have backed the insurgents.