An Israeli couple charged with “Spying” in Turkey
A Turkish couple have been charged by an Istanbul court with “spying” after they took a photo of the Turkish president’s house in the city, AFP reported, citing state media.
“The couple were detained on Thursday after visiting the Camlıca Tower, which opened last year in Uskudar on the Asian side of Istanbul“.
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There are restaurants and platforms in Uskudar and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan owns a house in the area.
According to the official news agency, the couple, who Israeli media identified as Murdi and Natalie Okinin, were transferred to an Istanbul court early Friday, where a judge charged them with “political and military espionage.”
An employee of the tower claimed that the Israeli couple and a Turkish citizen “entered the restaurant in the tower and took pictures of Erdogan’s house and showed them to each other“, AFP reported.
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid’s office issued a statement on Friday, stressing that the couple “do not work in any Israeli agency“.
Lapid spoke with the couple’s family and assured them that the Israeli Foreign Ministry had requested an urgent consular visit and that it was “working at all levels to secure their release“, the office said.
