This is the one where Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) tied up 200 intelligence officers following Palestinians and Syrians on the assumption that they were Mossad agents, a charge Mossad denied. But government mouthpiece Sabah headlined Turkey’s intelligence triumph, so the poor shmoes are being charged, jailed, and tried anyway.
[IsraelTimes] Pro-government paper says initial hearings to last four days; suspects charged with ’political and military’ espionage on behalf of IsraelSixteen people went on trial in Istanbul on Tuesday, charged with "political and military" espionage on behalf of Israel,
The defendants, including Paleostinians and Syrians, were arrested in October in an operation by
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...’s national intelligence agency, MIT, according to the pro-government Sabah newspaper and other
The suspects allegedly spied on Paleostinian and
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
, Croatia, Romania and Kenya.
Sabah said the initial hearings in the trial would last four days.
Following the arrests in October, the former deputy chief of the Mossad denied those arrested were Israeli spies.
The reports of the trial came amid signs of warming ties between Israel and Turkey after years of strained relations, and days after the presidents of the two countries spoke about a possible meeting.