Özkan Çokay

Police in Ankara on Sept. 8 detained the lawyer of a former Adana Public Chief prosecutor and two other prosecutors who are currently under arrest for ordering the 2014 stop and search of Turkish intelligence service trucks bound for Syria with the alleged purpose of arming Syrian rebels, a claim denied by government officials. 

An Istanbul court has rejected a prosecutor's demand to merge a case in which prosecutors and soldiers are being tried for searching trucks belonging to the Turkish intelligence agency with another case in which daily Cumhuriyet journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül are being tried for publishing a news story about the incident. 

The Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled for combining a case regarding Syria-bound Turkish Central Intelligence Organization (M?T) trucks, and the case of "Selam Tevhid," a terror group the government alleges to have been formed to justify the massive wiretapping scandal, with U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen as its main suspect. 

The Supreme Court of Appeals has declared ?secrecy? for all hearings in a case against the four prosecutors who ordered the stopping and searching of Syria-bound intelligence trucks in January 2014 and a staff colonel involved in the incident. The five being tried in the case are charged with attempting to topple the government.

The four prosecutors who ordered the stopping and searching of Syria-bound intelligence trucks in January 2014 and were later arrested on charges of attempting to topple the government, were transferred to Ankara late Aug. 2, from Turkey's southern district of Tarsus. 

A Mersin court has ruled that four prosecutors and a former army colonel will remain under arrest in a case filed over the stopping of Syria-bound intelligence trucks, after the defendants' attorneys left the court session when the judge refused their demand that the court hear the five defendants' testimonies.

Four prosecutors and one commander, for whom arrest warrants were issued after their halting of Syria-bound National Intelligence Organization (M?T) trucks in Turkey's south last year, have been detained. 

The Tarsus 2nd High Criminal Court ordered the arrest of four prosecutors, along with a commander who ordered the Syria-bound trucks belonging to M?T to be stopped and searched.