Within the framework of the investigation concerning the blasts in Reyhanli district on 11.05.2013 [...] , broadcasting and displaying information concerning the site of the incident, concerning the dead and injured casualties of the incident and concerning the content of the incident on all types of audio-visual, written and visual media and the internet is banned according to Article 153 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. [34]
Actually, this blanket ban was mainly targeting the information flow through the Internet considering that Turkey's mainstream media have been fully complicit in the government's constant war propaganda against Syria from April 2011. Nevertheless, the ban on the Internet proved to be somewhat ineffective in the face of an overwhelming sense of indignation towards to Government across the country.
Medical staff in the Hatay province, where Reyhanli is located, was ordered to "limit the death toll to 50". Local authorities said they "were instructed not to give any statement to the press". [35] Journalist Ferdi Ozmen revealed the actual figure by posting the number of deaths in seven local hospitals with a total of 177. He has been arrested for defying the blanket ban. [36]
Republican People's Party (CHP) member of parliament Mevlut Dudu explains how the evidence was instantly destroyed after the incident:
The police officers refused us entry to the site of the attacks on the grounds that they are collecting evidence. Nevertheless, we did [manage] to enter and saw that no evidence was being collected. Quite on the contrary, they were destroying the evidence using heavy construction equipment. [37]
It transpired that none of the 73 closed-circuit
television (CCTV) cameras in the town recorded the bombing attacks. Due
to a "system error", they had been out of order four days
before the incident. Most of these 73 CCTV cameras were directly
viewing the points where the bombing attacks occurred. [38]
CHP member of parliament Aytug Atici revealed that electricity was cut off just five minutes before the bombing attacks. [39] In fact, according to activist Hamide Yigit, cutting off the electricity was a strategy used by Turkey's authorities in smuggling international mercenaries into Syria:
Electricity is cut off along the [Harbiye-Yayladagi] itinerary; everywhere, including streets and roads, becomes totally dark. Meanwhile, vehicles carrying military ammunition and armed groups to the border pass by. Once their passage is over, the electricity resumes. The local residents, who are prevented from witnessing this transport, are feeling deeply restless about it. [40]
On the day of the bombing attacks, the militants who wanted to cross from Syria into Turkey were guided towards the Cilvegozu border gate instead of their habitual point of entry in Reyhanli. [41]
A currently censored video which was posted on Youtube shortly after the bombing attacks was recorded from an angle which oversaw the site of the attacks. Arabic speaking "Free Syrian Army" militants are seen to be recording the blasts in jubilation, shouting "Allah-u Akbar" (God is great) and mentioning the location of the blasts and the date. [42]
Only two days before the bombing attacks in Reyhanli, ABC reported "a secret visit" by the former U.S. Ambassador to Syria (January-October 2011) Robert Ford, who is the mastermind of NATO's covert war on Syria [43] :
A U.S. official confirmed [Robert] Ford's secret visit, which occurred along the Turkey-Syria border. He briefly crossed into Syria to meet with opposition leaders before returning to Turkey. [44]
In fact, there is a long history of false-flag incidents occurring in Turkey ahead of almost every top-level meeting between Turkey's politicians and their U.S. or Israeli counterparts.
Of all the false-flag operations in Turkey, by far the most devastating was the bombing attacks on 15th and 20th November 2003, which targeted two synagogues, HSBC bank headquarters, and the British Embassy in Istanbul, killing 57 people and wounding another 700. The attacks coincided with U.S. President George Bush's meting with the British Prime Minister Tony Blair in London. [45]
Baki Yigit was on of the five people who were sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment in 2007 for their roles in these attacks. He was released from prison in 2010 and died in 2012 whilst fighting in Aleppo among the ranks of the Free Syrian Army. [46]
Furthermore, foreign intelligence agencies CIA
(U.S.), Mossad (Israel), MI6 (Britain) and BND (Germany) have a very
prominent presence across Turkey's border region with Syria.
Located some 100 km from Turkey's border with Syria, NATO's
Incirlik Airbase is being used as the command centre for the covert war
on Syria. [47]
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