An opposition Turkish daily on May 29 published video footage of mortar shells, grenade launchers and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition stashed under boxes containing antibiotics and marked "fragile".
Local security forces in January 2014 searched trucks in southern Turkey near the Syrian border on suspicion that they were smuggling arms into Syria and found personnel of the Turkish National Intelligence Organisation (MİT) on board.
Turkey said at the time that the vehicles were on a humanitarian mission to the Turkmen community in Syria...
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30/5/15
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