'No Witnesses left behind' - 'Sometimes NATO Ally' Turkey arrests 17 over 'Syria arms interception'

'No Witnesses left behind' - 'Sometimes NATO Ally' Turkey arrests 17 over 'Syria arms interception'. (TDS).

A Turkish court Friday placed under arrest pending trial 17 soldiers charged in a hugely controversial case over the interception last year of a consignment that allegedly contained arms bound for Syria.

The 17 have been charged with membership of a terrorist organization and working on behalf of the "parallel state," common official shorthand for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's arch enemy the U.S.-based preacher Fethullah Gulen.

A total of 32 soldiers detained after prosecutors issues warrants at the weekend had appeared before the Istanbul court but 15 were allowed to go free, 10 of them under judicial supervision.

A date for the trial has yet to be set.

In January last year, Turkish security forces stopped and seized seven trucks near the Syrian border that were suspected of seeking to smuggle weapons into Syria.

A series of documents were then leaked on the Internet indicating that the seized trucks were actually National Intelligence Agency (MIT) vehicles delivering weapons to Syrian Islamist rebels fighting President Bashar Assad. Hmmm.....Eliminate all witnesses....it never happened.Read the full story here.


Related: VIDEO Of the Weapon's shipment HERE !

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