Turkish authorities arrest 33 people on charges of spying for “Israel”

ISTANBUL, Jan. 02 (YPA) – The Turkish authorities arrested 33 people, on Tuesday, on charges of involvement in espionage activities for the Israeli Foreign Intelligence Service (Mossad), while the search is still ongoing for 13 others.

“Anadolu” Agency reported that the Turkish police carried out simultaneous raids in 57 locations in eight provinces as part of an investigation launched by the Anti-Terrorism Office of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Istanbul.

The agency noted that the suspects were seeking to monitor, attack, and kidnap foreigners living in Turkey as part of “international espionage” operations.

In this context, the Turkish Interior Minister, Ali Yerlikaya, wrote on the “X” platform that Israeli intelligence was preparing an “attack” or “kidnapping” operations against a number of foreigners who had been spied on.

Last May, the Turkish authorities arrested 15 people linked to the Israeli “Mossad,” suspected of collecting information through Palestinian and Syrian citizens in Turkey.

YPA