Retrial for opposition deputy jailed for security leak

By Filiz Kinik

ISTANBUL

An opposition lawmaker jailed for leaking state secrets should face a fresh trial, a court ruled Monday.

Enis Berberoglu, a deputy for the Republican People’s Party (CHP), was sentenced to 25 years in June after he was convicted of leaking details of the “MIT trucks case” to a newspaper.

An appeals court ordered his retrial but said he should remain in prison pending the new hearing.

The case has been forwarded to Istanbul’s 14th Heavy Penal Court to be reviewed.

The penal court found him guilty of leaking footage of National Intelligence Organization (MIT) trucks stopped en route to Syria in January 2014 to the Cumhuriyet newspaper.