The chairman of the powerful Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Saturday said none of the 15 men arrested in
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earlier this week were Mossad agents, as alleged by
MK Ram Ben-Barak, a former deputy director of the Mossad intelligence agency, also suggested the
"None of the published names were [of] Israeli spies and therefore, it should be put in proportion," he told Channel 12.
Turkey’s Sabah daily reported on Thursday that 15 men who allegedly spied for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency were arrested by authorities earlier this month.
Sabah, which is close to
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There has been no official confirmation from Turkey on the arrests and it was not clear how the paper interviewed the man if he had been arrested.