Turkey deputy: weapons being smuggled to Syria

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Thomas Seibert

Nov 11, 2011
ISTANBUL // Many firearms from Turkey have entered Syria, and the Turkish government has stopped alleged arms-smuggling activities at a border post between the two countries, a Turkish opposition deputy said yesterday.

"You see many Turkish-made firearms in Syria," Mehmet Ali Ediboglu, a deputy from the province of Hatay, which borders Syria, said in a telephone interview. "I don't know how they got into the country."

Mr Ediboglu, a member of the Republican People's Party (CHP), Turkey's main opposition group, visited Syria in September with a delegation of his party. He said Syrian officials presented what they said was evidence of arms smuggling at the Cilvegozu border gate in Hatay. Trucks full of weapons had allegedly been unloaded in the no-man's-land between the Turkish and the Syria control points, he said.

"The Syrians said the arms ended up with the Muslim Brotherhood," an Islamic group opposing the regime of Bashar Al Assad, the Syrian president, Mr Ediboglu said.

http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/turkey-deputy-weapons-being-smuggled-to-syria

[TheWraith]

1. "I don't know how they got into the country."

Nudge, wink.