Turkey detains 7 suspected of spying for Israel’s Mossad

ANKARA — Turkish police on Friday detained seven people suspected of selling information to Israel’s intelligence agency, the Mossad, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu News Agency reported.

The detainees were rounded up in raids in Istanbul and Turkey’s Aegean coastal province of Izmir, the latest move by the Turkish authorities as they crack down on an alleged Israeli intelligence network in the country.

The suspects are accused of tracking Mossad targets in Turkey, collecting visual, audio and biographic intelligence on them and selling them to the Israeli agency through private investigators, according to Anadolu. 

The police seized three licensed guns, 50 ammunition caches as well as digital materials in the raids conducted at the suspects’ addresses, the report said, without clarifying whether the detainees were Turkish nationals or foreigners.