Turkey's Prime Ministry has denied media claims that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave the order for trucks belonging to the country's intelligence agency MIT to be stopped and searched in January.
The statement on Wednesday came after a Turkish newspaper alleged written evidence showed the PM had ordered a search of seven Turkish intelligence agency (MIT) trucks en route to Syria on January 19, which were stopped by gendarmerie teams despite a national security law forbidding such an act.
The Prime Ministry statement read: "The claims included in a news story entitled "Order given by Erdogan", which appeared in a Turkish daily on Wednesday, regarding the illegal search of trucks belonging to the country's intelligence agency MIT in January are completely false."
Turkey's Interior Ministry said at the time the trucks, which were allegedly carrying arms into the north of Syria, were in reality conveying humanitarian aid to the Turkmen community in Syria.
The prosecutor and security officers who ordered the stopping of the trucks were later removed from their posts.
