Turkey Opposition Accuses Gov’t of Arming Syria Terrorists

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Turkish opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu on Wednesday accused the government of delivering arms to Syria extremists, pledging to seal the border to such traffic if he came to power.

Turkey has been under fire for shipping arms to terrorists fighting to bring down the Syrian regime.

"There are videos showing how cases in trucks were opened and images of bombs. I also watched them," Kilicdaroglu of the Republican People's Party (CHP), told the Hurriyet newspaper in an interview.
"There is nothing to hide here," he said.

Kilicdaroglu pledged to bolster security on the Turkish-Syrian border if his CHP party came to power in June 7 general elections.
Polls show the CHP running in second place, after the ruling AKP party.
"With the CHP in power, the border would return to its former state and we would provide border security," Kilicdaroglu said.

His comments come amid growing controversy over the arrests of dozens of soldiers, police and prosecutors over inspections of Turkish National Intelligence Organization [MIT] vehicles bound for Syria in January 2014.

Leaked documents circulating on the Internet revealed the seized trucks were delivering weapons to Syria terrorists.
"We will not allow illegal border crossings," Kilicdaroglu said. "And MIT trucks will not shuttle back and forth."
Erdogan at the weekend said that the checks on the trucks were "treason" and deserved to be punished.

Tensions over foreign policy are running high in the run-up to the election, with some top CHP figures claiming that Ankara is planning to militarily intervene in Syria as a publicity stunt ahead of the vote.

The government has ridiculed the claim as "lies".
There have also been information that Turkey and its close ally Qatar supplied arms to al-Qaeda-linked terrorists to help them take the region of Idlib from Syrian forces earlier last month.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team