The government subsequently faced calls to resign while an investigation began into Cumhuriyet for releasing the footage.[1][2] A legal complaint against Erdoğan was made by Republican People's Party (CHP) Member of Parliament Hüseyin Aygün, who accused him of high treason for supplying weapons to enemies of the Turkish state.[3] A ban was placed on the footage of the lorries, which emerged to have transported 1,000 mortar shells,[4] 1,000 rifled artillery shells, 50,000 machine gun rounds and 30,000 rifle bullets to what was alleged to be Al Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Syria,[5][better source needed] but according to later academic study was the Free Syrian Army and rebel Syrian Turkmen.[6]