ANKARA — Turkish authorities have arrested two men in Istanbul on accusations that they spied for Israel’s intelligence service, Mossad, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Friday.

Details: The suspects were identified as Turkish national Mehmet Budak Derya and Turkish citizen Veysel Kerimoglu, who is of Palestinian descent, according to Anadolu. Authorities accused the pair of providing information to the Mossad for more than a decade. Both suspects were placed in pretrial detention pending a formal indictment.

Derya, a mining engineer who later entered international trade through a marble business in southern Turkey, allegedly established contact with Israeli intelligence operatives in Europe in 2013,........

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