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The Grand Turk
Couple’s ongoing detention likely means Turkish intel still fishing for Israeli info
2021-11-19
From yesterday before the couple was released, but an interesting analysis nonetheless.
[IsraelTimes] October arrests of 15 suspected Mossad spies didn’t get Ankara what it wanted; now it may think it’s found a better bargaining chip.

"It seems that in exchange for the release of the 15 [falsely accused of being Mossad agents], Turkey demanded something," posited Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak, a Turkey scholar at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security. "And Israel apparently ignored them, apparently said, ’What do we care? They’re not Israelis. We don’t know them.'"
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
’s arrest and detention of an Israeli tourist couple last week, and its insistence on treating them as supposed spies, would appear to run counter to the direction of the country’s foreign policy over the past year.
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