The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who has arrived in Cyprus Thursday evening, will have a meeting with the President of the Republic of Cyprus Friday morning, during which the infrastructures related to the planning for the creation of a maritime corridor for the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza from Cyprus will be discussed. The President of the Republic, Nikos Christodoulides, will receive the President of the European Commission at 10 am at the Presidential Palace. They will then visit Larnaca port and the facilities of the Joint Rescue Coordination Center (JRCC), in order to inspect the existing infrastructure for the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, in the context of the opening of a maritime humanitarian corridor. They will then make statements to the Media. On Thursday evening, President Christodoulides hosted a dinner for von der Leyen at the Presidential Palace. Source: Cyprus News Agency ANKARA: A Turkish court on Friday remanded in custody six of the seven suspects held earlier this week for selling information to Israel's Mossad intelligence service, security sources said. The Istanbul prosecutor's office had conducted the investigation, and requested the court for the arrest of the suspects. While six suspects were arrested, one was released but put under judicial control. Private detective One of the suspects captured in the joint operation on Tuesday was identified as Hamza Turhan Ayberk, a former civil servant and a private detective, the sources said, adding that Mossad contacted Ayberk through an operative codenamed Victoria. Turkish intelligence agency MIT established that he was leaking information to Mossad in exchange for money. He had formed a team of people, including public officers, to provide information to Israel, and had also compiled information on Middle Eastern individuals and companies in Trkiye. Secret communication applications Ayberk was trained by Mossad in B elgrade in 2019, and was first used by the Israeli secret service for simple jobs, the sources said. While he used secret communication apps under the direction of Mossad, he received payments in cryptocurrencies so that they would not be included in official records. In addition to leaking information, Ayberk also engaged in threats and surveillance activities. Another suspect was police officer Ismail K., who was previously dismissed from the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the group behind the 2016 defeated coup in Trkiye. Drugs and a precision scale were seized during a search of his house, according to the sources. Meanwhile, suspect Ozkan S. had been dismissed from the police force, while Omer Burak G. had voluntarily resigned. Others held included Ercan K., a retired police officer; Mehmet Y., a tax office employee, and Funda K., who worked in the private sector. Source: Anadolu Agency
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