Turkiye sentence a family to a total of 100 years in prison

Turkish authorities have sentenced a family to a total of 100 years in prison for spying for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, in the latest move to crackdown on the agency’s activities within Turkiye.

Turkiye’s National Intelligence Organisation (MIT) captured and arrested multiple suspects in an operation which uncovered their active participation in espionage activities for Mossad, contact with the agency’s operatives, and that they had gathered confidential information on targets.

Yesterday Istanbul’s 23rd Heavy Penal Court sentenced them to a total of 100 years in prison. The suspects included a family of three, with insurance company owner Ahmet Ersin Tumlucali handed a 22-and-a-half-year jail term for leading a network of Mossad operatives. This was reduced to 18 years and nine months on “good behaviour”