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Turkey's Unprecedented Act of Betrayal Against Israel
(Jerusalem Post) Yossi Melman - In April 2012, Iran announced that it had uncovered a spy ring of 15 operatives working at the behest of Israel and responsible for the killings of its nuclear scientists. In announcing the arrests, Iran touted revelations regarding "Zionist" intelligence activity in a neighboring country. On Thursday, the Washington Post reported that Turkish intelligence had leaked the identities of 10 Iranian spies working for Israel, who would meet with their Mossad handlers on Turkish soil. We are talking about an unprecedented act of betrayal. For over 50 years, Israel and Turkey were strategic allies. At the heart of this relationship were the extremely close ties established in 1958 between Israel's Mossad and Military Intelligence with Turkey's MIT and its military intelligence apparatus. If the Israeli spy network was indeed unveiled, it was done so at the order of MIT director Hakan Fidan and with the full approval of Prime Minister Erdogan.