Police in Turkey have arrested seven people on suspicion of selling information to the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency is reporting.
The suspects are accused of passing details to Mossad via private detectives.
They were detained following raids in Istanbul and the west coast city of Izmir as part of a joint operation with Turkey’s National Intelligence Organisation.
Two other suspects in the investigation are believed to have been detained previously.
It comes after 34 people were detained last month on suspicion of spying for Israel.
They were accused of planning to carry out activities, including reconnaissance and “pursuing, assaulting and kidnapping” foreign nationals living in Turkey.
Mossad is said to have recruited Palestinian and Syrian nationals in Turkey as part of an operation targeting Palestinian nationals and their families in the context of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, Anadolu has previously reported.
The head of Israel’s domestic Shin Bet security agency has said his organisation is prepared to target Hamas anywhere.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned of “serious consequences” if Israel acts on its threat to target Hamas officials on Turkish soil.
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