A prosecutor presented his indictment on Wednesday charging Can Dündar and Erdem Gül, two high-level employees of the Cumhuriyet daily, with espionage. The indictment brands the two men as "accomplices" of the Gülenist Terror Organization/Parallel State Structure (FETÖ/PDY) and asks for life terms on terrorism charges.Dündar, who serves as editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet, and Gül, who serves as Cumhuriyet's Ankara representative, were arrested last year after publishing a controversial report regarding the National Intelligence Organization (MİT). Dündar and Gül were responsible for publishing footage regarding an unlawful raid that targeted trucks belonging to MİT in early January 2014. These trucks were stopped in southern Adana province, while they were carrying supplies intended for the Turkmen of the Bayırbucak region in Latakia province in northern Syria. Government officials allege the raid against the trucks was carried out by officials linked with the Gülen Movement with the purpose of undermining the government's reputation.The indictment accuses the two defendants of being collaborators with the Gülenist FETÖ/PDY and their purpose was "to create the perception in Turkey and in the world that Turkey was helping terrorist organizations to associate the government with terrorism."It says the raid on the trucks was the work of suspects who were also members of the terrorist organization and was based on forged evidence and false tip-offs. "FETÖ/PDY sought to have Turkey and its government brought to the International Criminal Court as a country supporting terrorism. Can Dündar and Erdem Gül, as FETÖ members who ordered and carried out the raid, were aware that there was no evidence showing the trucks was carrying supplies to any terrorist organization," the indictment argues. Citing a broadcast and publication ban, the prosecutor said the two defendants continued publishing articles on the matter and, "coincided these with the pre-election period.""They obtained confidential information that was classified to protect Turkey's national and international interests, and they have done this for the purpose of espionage. It is apparent that the suspects acted together as the suspects plotted against the Republic of Turkey with fake evidence and false tip-offs. The suspects should be viewed as collaborators of FETÖ/PDY, and they willingly helped the organization," the indictment says.Footage of the operation, which was later claimed to be the work of the FETÖ/PDY, had drawn the ire of the government. Both military officials that launched the raid and the prosecutors who ordered it were arrested last year for violating national security.The incident caused outrage after footage and photos surfaced, showing MİT officials being handcuffed at gunpoint by troops. This prompted the government to reform its intelligence laws in an effort to avoid such situations in the future.The Gülen Movement, led by U.S.-based former preacher Fethullah Gülen, is at the center of a string of terror investigations, following two attempts to overthrow the government in 2013. The group is accused of illegal activities ranging from terrorism to illegal wiretapping, blackmail and imprisonment of critics. The government has launched a purge of Gülenists who had infiltrated law enforcement, the judiciary and key posts in the bureaucracy in support of the coup attempt. Since then, a large number of police officers, prosecutors and judges have either been suspended from duty or convicted on terror charges, while senior members of the movement and judicial figures linked to Gülenists fled abroad.