Mossad spy network rounded-up in Turkiye

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Mossad tracking foreigners in Türkiye – media
News channel A Haber has claimed that Turkish intelligence officials detained seven suspected Israeli covert-action operatives
https://www.rt.com/news/579120-turkiy-intelligence-mossad-operatives/

Turkish authorities have uncovered a network of Mossad agents in the country, news channel A Haber has reported. The suspected Israeli intelligence operatives had allegedly been gathering information on foreign nationals residing in Türkiye.

The media outlet claimed on Monday that Türkiye's National Intelligence Organization (MIT) had for months been monitoring the clandestine activities of the Israeli intelligence services.

Seven people have reportedly been detained as a result, with all of them admitting to working for Mossad, Israel's national intelligence agency. A total of 56 individuals comprising nine cells are believed to be involved, A Haber reported.

According to the channel, their supposed tasks included tracking certain foreign citizens living in Türkiye, using GPS devices, wi-fi and password-capturing tools.

On top of that, the alleged network, whose operational base is thought to be in Tel Aviv, were setting up fake websites in various languages, including Arabic, to lure their victims and make them reveal their personal details, location and IP addresses, the article claimed.

The suspected Mossad agents also allegedly used fake news websites, with stories selected specifically to grab the target's attention, A Haber reported. On clicking an infected link, the unsuspecting target would allegedly give access to their cell phone to a Mossad spyware program.

The Turkish outlet is also claiming that the supposed spies and their Israeli handlers had utilized hundreds of disposable internet data lines belonging to fictitious individuals from Spain, England, Germany, Sweden, Malaysia, Indonesia and Belgium for communication purposes .

On top of their alleged operations inside Türkiye, the alleged Mossad operatives, most of whom are presumably Turkish residents of Arab origin, had also been sent on intelligence-gathering missions to neighboring Syria and Lebanon, the report suggested.

It cited one such case, in which a Mossad operative had allegedly obtained the coordinates of a building in Lebanon that was housing high-profile figures from the Hezbollah militant group.

The news channel claimed that the Israeli intelligence service had been training its would-be agents in Thailand. To cover their tracks, the supposed Mossad operatives would take a devious route, flying first to Serbia, then to Dubai and finally arriving in the South-Asian country, A Haber reports.

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Turkiye intelligence agency exposes 'ghost' network of Mossad operatives         
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230703-turkiye-intelligence-agency-exposes-ghost-network-of-mossad-operatives/

Turkiye's National Intelligence Organisation (MIT) has exposed a vast "ghost" network of dozens of operatives working for the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, in the latest Turkish operation to bust a foreign espionage ring.

According to the Turkish newspaper, Daily Sabah, the MIT recently uncovered a cell of 56 Mossad operatives, based primarily on confessions obtained from seven relevant people who were apprehended in an operation conducted in collaboration with the Istanbul Police Department's Anti-Terrorism Branch.

Citing MIT documents, the paper reported that the spies were tied to nine networks overseen by nine senior Mossad agents based in the Israeli capital, Tel Aviv, and were responsible for the gathering of biographical intelligence on non-Turkish foreign nationals residing in Turkiye.

The operatives used a series of methods including online routing, the tracking of vehicle movements through GPS, hacking into password-protected networks based on Wi-Fi devices and sourcing and identifying private locations. The physical tracking and following of targets was also conducted, particularly of individuals Mossad deemed necessary to surveil, and have meetings photographed.

Much of the work was reportedly supervised by Israelis of Arab origin, such as one named Soliman Agbaria, and the cell was made up of citizens from various Middle Eastern countries. Agents within Turkiye and abroad communicated using single-use mobile phone lines based in Spain, England, Germany, Sweden, Malaysia, Indonesia and Belgium, all of which were owned by fake identities.

One example provided by the paper was that of an agent codenamed 'Shirin Alayan' who used a German phone line to instruct a Palestinian Mossad operative – Khaled Nijim – to set up fake news platforms and websites that would serve the purpose of attracting the attention of targets to certain articles, which would then infect the targets' phones or devices with a virus when they clicked on links.

Those websites reportedly included the likes of najarland.com, almeshar.com, nasrin-news.com and hresource.co.uk.

A more international dynamic was also discovered by MIT, in that Mossad sent its Istanbul-based operatives of Arab origin to Arab states such as Lebanon and Syria, where they gathered intelligence to mark locations for potential or future Israeli drone strikes.

Examples include the deployment of agents to the Lebanese capital, Beirut, to explore its Haret Hreik municipality, where they are said to have identified the exact coordinates for a building in which the Hezbollah movement and its high-ranking political and military figures operate from on its third floor.

One of the nine network leaders, codenamed 'Abdulla Qassem' – supposedly a Jordanian living in Sweden – also remotely instructed an individual named Zeyd Saadeddin to photograph a strategically significant building in the Qudsiyeh district of the Syrian capital, Damascus, and to analyse its level of security.

Alongside those intelligence-gathering operations, Mossad also reportedly sent dozens of its agents, especially Turks, to Serbia, then Dubai and then Thailand's capital, Bangkok – locations where Turkish citizens do not need a visa – in secret three-stop "touristic" trips. On the final leg of those trips, they were taken to a Mossad centre in Bangkok to advance their espionage skills.

The revelation is the latest of MIT's and Turkish security services' numerous operations to bust and dismantle Mossad spy cells and networks within Turkiye over the past few years, which appear to have increased significantly amid regional developments.

Israel's spy agency and its operatives have not been the only targets of Turkish intelligence, as it has also exposed and arrested numerous Iranian intelligence cells within the country which have attempted to abduct dissidents. Mossad apparently remains, however, the most prominent agency to have infiltrated Turkiye until now.

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Why do countries like Turkey let anyone from Israel in their country ?

They should make them slink around and shoot them at the border.