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The Grand Turk
Turkey said to arrest 7 members of alleged sprawling Mossad spy network
2023-07-04
[IsraelTimes] Report in pro-government daily claims Ottoman Turkish intel uncovered Tel Aviv-operated spy ring whose missions included hacking phones and marking targets in Beirut

A report in a pro-government Ottoman Turkish daily Monday claimed seven members of an Israeli spy ring were arrested by the counterintelligence branch of the country’s National Intelligence Organization, as part of a crackdown on an allegedly larger spy network.

According to the Daily Sabah, the seven were part of a 56-member team operated remotely from Tel Aviv by Israeli handlers, who communicated with the separate cells using burner phones. The report said the seven, who were not identified, confessed to working for Israeli intelligence.

It was not specified what happened to the other suspects, which were said to include an Arab Israeli, Ottoman Turkish nationals and Syrians.

The operatives reportedly gathered intelligence on targets using sophisticated surveillance techniques, including by sending links with viruses that infect phones when clicked. The report said some of the links were to stories on fake news websites set up by the network, most of which were in Arabic.

The Ottoman Turkish daily said the network’s Arabic-speaking members were dispatched to Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
and Syria to gather intelligence and pick out targets to be later struck by Israel, among them a building in Beirut where senior figures from the Hezbollah terror group reside.

The report also asserted dozens of other operatives traveled to a secret Mossad facility in Thailand
Oooooooohhhh — a secret trailing facility? How cool is that!
to learn the art of espionage, such as evading counterintelligence and put tracking devices on vehicles. Once in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
, they then reportedly had to undergo further training to test their skills and loyalty before going operational.
One would hope so. The Mossad does not accept inferior agents, unlike some spy agencies which need not be named.
Israel, which rarely comments publicly on Mossad actions, has not reacted to the allegations.

In recent years, Ottoman Turkish intelligence has claimed via Daily Sabah reports to have uncovered numerous Mossad espionage rings, including in May, when it said 11 people were arrested for spying on Iranian targets for Israel.
They do say so. And the Syrians claim to shoot down almost all Israeli missiles, the North Koreans claim they meant to hit the sea, and Iran claims to have invented ground-breaking new weapons.
The reports have come as the two countries have moved to patch up ties after years of tensions, fully reestablishing diplomatic ties last year.
...keep your enemies closer...
A year ago, security forces from both countries worked together to prevent an Iranian liquidation plot on Ottoman Turkish soil. Ottoman Turkish forces tracked and arrested the Iranian agents as they attempted to kidnap and kill Israeli tourists in Istanbul in a Dire Revenge attack for Israel’s alleged liquidation of a high-ranking Iranian military figure in May.

A major outstanding point of contention between the two regional powers is the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", office in Istanbul, which Ankara insists deals only with political activities.
...among their political actions being the obtaining of funds for the military wing...
Israel charges that the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
-ruling terror group uses its hub in Turkey to direct terror attacks and has publicly demanded that the office be shuttered.
Related:
Israeli spy ring: 2023-05-22 Iran claims to capture infiltrators linked to Israel
Israeli spy ring: 2022-04-13 Huge blast in Sidon town kills Amal member, injures at least 5
Israeli spy ring: 2013-10-18 Analysis: Turkey's Unprecedented Act Of Betrayal Against Israel
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