[An Nahar] Turkish authorities have seized an Iranian arms shipment heading to Syria and was meant for Hizbullah, a German newspaper reported Thursday.
| How confusing -- I thought Turkey and Iran are BFFs, and Turkey doesn't much like that Jewish entity. What changed? |
The Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung quoted diplomatic sources as saying that Turkish security forces stopped a convoy of trucks carrying a large quantity of weapons and ammunition in the south-central city of Kilis, which is adjacent to the Syrian border.
Ankara refused to either confirm or deny the report.
This was not the first time Turkey has been able to foil an Iranian arms shipment to Syria. In March, Ankara informed the U.N. Security Council that it had seized an Iranian cargo plane headed to Syria and that included a cache of weapons. |