Three Syrians who spied for French intelligence were arrested in Turkey
Three Syrians who spied for French foreign intelligence in exchange for entry visas were arrested in Turkey. They were engaged in preparing false documents against Turkey and providing information about Turkey's migration policy to foreign intelligence agencies.
The joint efforts of the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) Counterintelligence Directorate and the Istanbul Regional Directorate uncovered a gang of 3 people who had been spying in Turkey for 1 year for the French Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE). This was reported by Yenishafak publication.
These three persons, who are spies of the French foreign intelligence, have been engaged in preparing false documents against Turkey and providing information to foreign intelligence agencies about Turkey's migration policy.
As part of MIT's intelligence work aimed at exposing the activities of foreign intelligence organizations in Turkey, it was found that a Syrian person named Ahmet Kati, who lives in Istanbul and who publicly presented himself as an active journalist, sought asylum at the French Consulate General in Istanbul with his family.
However, the French foreign intelligence service offered Kati military and political espionage against Turkey in exchange for political asylum. Kati accepted a spy offer and provided false information and documents about Syrian refugees in Turkey and migration policies that could put Turkey in trouble in Europe.
It was revealed that 3 Syrians named Ahmet Kati, Ibrahim Shevaish and Khalis Alnahar contacted the leaders of the Friends of Aleppo Society (Coliectif Amis d'Alep) non-governmental organization located in Paris, the capital of France, on the instructions of the French intelligence.
It was discovered that the leaders of a Paris-based NGO controlled by French intelligence tried to embarrass Turkey internationally through remote online platforms through internet applications, alleging torture and human rights violations in Turkey's refugee detention centers.
Ahmet Kati is accused of secretly passing information and documents accusing Turkey of human rights abuses to French intelligence. He said he had received threats from the Turkish government and was one of Turkey's most prominent refugee rights activists, claiming that he obtained undisclosed secret information as part of espionage and passed it on to French intelligence. It was also found that Kati tried to establish contact with some political parties in Turkey.
In addition, Ahmet Kati was found to have carried out black propaganda through foreign media with information such as the killing of Syrians by Turkish soldiers on the border between Syria and Turkey, and the fact that 55 migrants were thrown into the Evros River on the Greek-Turkish border by Turkish border guards.
Ahmed Kati, who was under gradual surveillance by MIT in Istanbul, was also under surveillance in Bursa. Kati, who was granted an emergency visa by the French Consulate General in Istanbul on the instructions of French intelligence, was captured before leaving the country along with Hussam Alnahar and Ibrahim Shevaish, thanks to a successful operation by the MIT and Istanbul police.
