Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) allegedly transported a group of radical fighters to join the fighting in Tel Abyad in January of 2014, Today's Zaman reports, citing Cumhuriyet. It is the latest in a series of revelation of scandals involving the country's main intelligence body.

It is the second report in less than a week that reveals the scope of MİT's involvement in Syria's four-year-long civil war that has convulsed the country and risks spilling over into neighboring countries.

According to the Cumhuriyet report, MİT officials rented two passenger buses to transport fighters of the radical Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), ammunition and weapons from Reyhanlı to Akçakale, a town in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, before crossing the Syrian border.

The MİT officials brought fighters from the camp across the Turkish border and placed them on buses destined for Akçakale. The destination of the group was Tel Abyad, a Syrian town in Raqqa province, where the ferocious battles between the ascendant ISIL and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) took place.

Turkey closed the Akçakale border gate on the border with Syria on Jan. 6, 2014 because of heavy clashes between two sides in Tel Abyad. MİT, however, transported ISIL fighters to Tel Abyad on Jan. 9, this having a decisive impact over the course of the intra-rebel fighting.