Turkish PM calls Cumhuriyet report 'espionage against Turkey'

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Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has called the daily Cumhuriyet report on intelligence trucks bound for Syria "espionage against the state." 

"There is an issue of espionage in the [Cumhuriyet's] National Intelligence Agency (M?T) reports. Literally, the subject is about aid materials sent to Bay?rbucak Türkmens, not about the two journalists expressing their opinion," Davuto?lu said.

"There is clearly an issue of an activity against the Republic of Turkey. They published documents, which were meant to be secret, and revived the issue. They can criticize our policy but if the security of the state is the issue, no matter what country one is in, the privacy of the operation is guaranteed. The aims of those who gave the documents to them are obvious," he added on March 2

Davuto?lu also touched on journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül's application to the Constitutional Court, saying such applications should not be made "before the legal process is complete."

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