Weapons Cache Found in Bosphorus

A fisherman called the police, saying that “a plastic bag with explosive materials” had been thrown into the sea.

When the police searched the sea next to the Beykoz Çubuklu ferry pier on the Bosphorus in Istanbul yesterday (10 May), they found rifle bullets.

According to the Ntvmsnbc.com news website, divers found a lot of ammunition in the sea, including rifle bullets, hand grenades, smoke bombs, flares, weapon parts and cartridge clips. Experts investigated the ammunition and then took it to the Anti-Terrorism Branch.

The search in the sea continued today.

Army not telling truth about buried weapons?

Meanwhile the Taraf daily newspaper has commented on a statement by Chief of Staff İlker Başbuğ, who had said in a recent press conference that the army no longer had any weapons buried, and that the buried depots had been excavated in 1998.

The newspaper used a document it obtained as evidence to claim that by 2004, buried weapons and ammunition of the Special Forces had not been on the army’s inventory for six years. (EÖ/AG)