According to reports, the arrests came in the past few days during operations into gendarmerie accommodation facilities in Erzincan. One of those arrested was identified as E.E., a senior lieutenant who serves as the deputy chief of the gendarmerie intelligence department in Erzincan. Weapons and bullets were found in his home during the operation.
The other officer detained in the operation was identified as O.E., also from the Erzincan Gendarmerie Command’s intelligence department. Although they served in Erzincan, a special prosecutor from Erzurum is conducting the probe.
Neither man chose to speak in their initial interrogations. They have been placed in the Erzurum Military Prison after being arrested on charges of membership in a terrorist organization.
The specially authorized Erzurum Prosecutor’s Office announced that three guns whose origins are yet to be established, bullets for said weapons as well as a large number of bullets for Kalashnikov rifles were found in the homes of the two men. Documents, CDs and external hard disks of the two men were also ceased in the investigation.
