Spying? Don't bend the law so much

Daily Cumhuriyet Editor-in-chief Can Dündar and the paper's Ankara representative, Erdem Gül, have been arrested because of stories they wrote. 

Here is a chronology to better understand the issue in our country where everything is extremely confusing: 

Jan. 1, 2014: In the K?r?khan district of southern Hatay province, trucks belonging to Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (M?T) are stopped and searched. 

Jan. 19, 2014: In the Sirkeli area of southern Adana province's Ceyhan district, M?T trucks are stopped and searched. 

May 15, 2014: An indictment accusing the gendarmerie and police officers who stopped and searched the M?T trucks in Hatay and Adana of a series of crimes, from being a member of a terror organization to spying, is accepted.

May 29, 2015: Some 18 months after the stopping of the trucks, a story written by Dündar in Cumhuriyet has photographs and videos of the search of the trucks and the report of the search. The debate of "The trucks were carrying weapons" versus "No, they were carrying aid material" which went on until that day comes to a stop. The fact that the trucks carried weapons is served to the attention of the public. 

July 15, 2015: The indictment about the prosecutors involved in the stopping of the trucks in Hatay and Adana is accepted. This procedure took longer because of their special legal status and because it met serious resistance at the Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) at the beginning. The prosecutors, just like the gendarmerie and police officers, are accused of serious crimes, from spying to being a member of a (terror) organization.   Nov. 26, 2015: The Istanbul Chief Prosecutor's Office asks Dündar and Gül to give a statement as "suspects." After...