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Turkish authorities have detained seven people suspected of selling information to Israeli intelligence agency Mossad via private detectives, security sources said Friday.
Turkish police and the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) caught seven of the nine suspects wanted for their links to Mossad in two simultaneous raids in Istanbul and Izmir early on Friday, sources said, weeks after some 34 suspects were detained in a similar operation targeting a Mossad cell.
MIT’s probe found Mossad was using private detectives to track its targets in Türkiye, who would collect biographical information and documents, conduct reconnaissance, take pictures, track and wiretap targets.
Two of the suspects had been arrested in the past as part of the same investigation, sources added.
In December 2022, the Turkish agency detained 68 suspects in an operation targeting private detectives and technical operatives working for Mossad.
