Islamic
State terrorists in Syria received all necessary materials to produce
deadly sarin gas via Turkey, Turkish MP Eren Erdem has told RT,
insisting there are grounds to believe a cover up has taken place.
The main
opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) member, Erdem, brought up
the issue for public discussion in parliament last week, citing
evidence from an abruptly-closed criminal case. He accused Ankara of
failing to investigate Turkish supply routes used to provide
terrorists with toxic sarin gas ingredients.
“There
is data in this indictment. Chemical weapon materials are being
brought to Turkey and being put together in Syria in camps of ISIS
which was known as Iraqi Al Qaeda during that time,” Erdem told
RT.
Sarin gas is
a military-grade chemical that was used in a notorious attack on
Ghouta and several other neighborhoods near the Syrian capital of
Damascus in 2013. The attacks were pinned on the Syrian leadership,
who in turn agreed to get rid of all chemical weapons stockpiles
under a UN-brokered deal amid an imminent threat of US intervention.
Addressing
parliamentarians on Thursday, Erdem showed a copy of the criminal
case number 2013/120 that was opened by the General Prosecutor's
Office in the city of Adana in southern Turkey.
The
investigation revealed that a number of Turkish citizens took part in
negotiations with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL)
representatives on the supply of sarin gas. Pointing to evidence
cited in the criminal case, he said that wiretapped phone
conversations proved that an Al-Qaeda militant, Hayyam Kasap,
acquired sarin.
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