The editor-in-chief of Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet, along with that newspaper’s Ankara bureau chief, has been arrested for “divulging state secrets” after publishing a report claiming that Turkey’s intelligence agency has been arming Syrian rebels against dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Editor-in-chief Can Dündar and Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gul were detained and are currently being held in “pre-trial detention” over a report surfacing in May that the Turkish government may be directly arming Syrian rebels. The report did not specify whether the Syrian rebels had ties to terrorist organizations like the Islamic State or al Qaeda. Specifically, it noted that Turkish security forces had stopped a convoy that appeared to be shipping weapons to Syria in early 2014. The trucks, Cumhuriyet claimed, had been directed to travel to Syria by the Turkish National Intelligence Organisation (MIT), the nation’s equivalent to America’s CIA.

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