ADANA
Two Turkish soldiers were cleared in court on Tuesday after their objection was upheld in the illegal MIT truck search case which took place in January.
Two soldiers were accused of illegally searching trucks belong to the country's MIT intelligence agency in January, as part of an investigation. Following their arrest, the soldiers' lawyers objected in the superior court and the request was accepted.
Seven trucks, belonging to the Turkish intelligence agency, en route to Syria, were stopped by gendarmerie teams on January 19 in Adana in Southern Turkey, despite a national security law forbidding such an act.
Turkey's Interior Ministry said the trucks were 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.
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