Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described the publication of the Cumhuriyet newspaper of information about an arms shipment to Syria as espionage.
The Turkish opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet published a video allegedly from an intelligence agency convoy detained by the Turkish army and police on the Syrian border.
"This is connected to Syrian Turkmen. MIT gives them logistical and humanitarian aid. All this slander is illegal espionage and the newspaper is involved in it. They gave numbers, what is their source? The individual who has reported this will pay a high price for this" RIA Novosti cited Erdogan as saying.
Turkish prosecutors began an investigation into the newspaper's editor in chief. 17 Turkish soldiers, the former head of the provincial military police and 4 prosecutors have been arrested in connection with the detained trucks.
