The Turkish secret services announced on Friday (11/2) that they managed to prevent an Iranian conspiracy to assassinate a Turkish-Israeli businessman in Istanbul.
According to the pro-government newspaper Sabah, MIT, the Turkish secret service, arrested eight people this week as suspects in its planning. murder by Jair Geller.
The businessman with dual citizenship – Turkish and Israeli – has companies in the aviation and defense sectors, Sabah clarifies.
Designed in retaliation for the assassination of nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
The assassination attempt, according to the Athens News Agency, was planned in retaliation for that of Iranian nuclear physicist Mohsen Fahrizadeh in November 2020 near Tehranthe newspaper reported, citing security sources.
The assassination of Fakhrizadeh, a top nuclear scientist, was blamed on Israel, which was suspected of being the father of Iran’s nuclear program.
Subsequently, Ankara condemned this “terrorist act”.
According to Sabah, Istanbul police launched an operation “a few days ago” to arrest members of the network.
“After a month of investigation and surveillance,” eight people were arrested for “forming and participating in a criminal organization” while the head of the network is in Iran, the newspaper said.
According to the same source, the Turkish MIT cooperated with Mossad to prevent the murder and protect the businessman who was “transferred to a safe place”.
Ankara seeks to rekindle relations with Israel after years of tensions
The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently announced the forthcoming visit to Turkey of Israeli President Isaac Herzog, with whom he has had several telephone conversations.
Ankara-Israel relations remain strained after the Mavi Marmara incident in 2010, when Israeli forces launched a deadly attack on a Turkish ship trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Both countries recalled their ambassadors in 2018 following the deaths of Palestinian protesters in Gaza.
Source: News Beast
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