National Intelligence Organisation scandal in Turkey

A Turkish court on June 8 said it will seek the extradition from Germany of fugitive Can Dündar.

Neither Dündar nor his lawyer attended the first hearing of the high-profile case at Istanbul's 14th High Criminal Court.

A Turkish court on Dec. 23 sentenced Can Dündar to 27 years and six months in prison for aiding the terror group FETÖ by publishing state secrets, although not being a part of the hierarchical structure of the organization.

Under the indictment submitted to Istanbul's High Criminal Court no:14 on Oct. 14, Dündar could get anywhere from about 22 to 35 years behind bars.

A Turkish court on June 28 sentenced a group of seven gendarmerie officers and prosecutors over the 2014 case of National Intelligence Organization (MİT) trucks stopped illegally near the Turkish-Syrian border.

The Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office on April 13 demanded 15 years in jail for the former prosecutor of a controversial National Intelligence Agency (MİT) trucks case on charges of "membership to a terrorist organization," state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

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. 

Five Turkish prosecutors who ordered the stopping of state-owned trucks purportedly carrying weapons to Syria have been dismissed by Turkey's top judiciary body.

Daily Cumhuriyet has been awarded by a corruption watchdog organization for its reporting on purportedly state-owned trucks carrying weapons to militants fighting in Syria as well as its story on the Charlie Hebdo attack.

Last Thursday, Can Dündar and Erdem Gül, the editor-in-chief and the Ankara representative of Turkish daily newspaper Cumhuriyet, were arrested and put in jail. They might stay in prison for months, perhaps years. The prosecutor who demanded their arrest has also demanded prison sentences of 42 years!