ANKARA — Turkish authorities detained seven people on Tuesday, including a former Turkish police officer suspected of selling information to Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad.
Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said the suspects, who were rounded up in simultaneous raids conducted in collaboration with the Turkish intelligence agency in Istanbul, had been allegedly gathering information about Turkey-based individuals and companies that were on the radar of Israeli intelligence.
Authorities seized unlicensed guns, an unspecified quantity of drugs, a bug detector and digital documents as well as foreign cash, according to Yerlikaya.
He provided no further details on the detainees, but Turkey’s state-run Anadolu News Agency reported that among the suspects was a former Turkish police officer said to have received Mossad training in the Serbian capital Belgrade in 2019 after he had been sacked from his job.
