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Former Mossad deputy denies detainees in Turkey are Israeli spies
[IsraelTimes] MK Ram Ben Barak, who heads powerful Knesset committee, pushes back against reports in Ottoman Turkish media.

The chairman of the powerful Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Saturday said none of the 15 men arrested in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
earlier this week were Mossad agents, as alleged by Ottoman Turkish media reports

MK Ram Ben-Barak, a former deputy director of the Mossad intelligence agency, also suggested the Ottoman Turkish government is eager to show its intelligence "achievements," resulting in the occasional publication of false information.

"None of the published names were [of] Israeli spies and therefore, it should be put in proportion," he told Channel 12.

Turkey’s Sabah daily reported on Thursday that 15 men who allegedly spied for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency were arrested by authorities earlier this month.

Sabah, which is close to Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
, on Friday carried an interview with one of the detainees, whom it identified only by his initials M.A.S.

There has been no official confirmation from Turkey on the arrests and it was not clear how the paper interviewed the man if he had been arrested.

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