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Sunday, August 01, 2010

AFP: Israel fears Turkey spy chief is 'supporter of Iran'

"Israel fears Turkey spy chief is 'supporter of Iran'

(AFP) – 3 hours ago

JERUSALEM — Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has expressed concern over Turkey's appointment of a new spy chief he called a 'supporter' of the Jewish state's archfoe Iran, army radio reported Sunday.

'Turkey is a friendly country, a strategic ally, but the nomination in recent weeks of a new chief of the Turkish secret services who is a supporter of Iran worries us,' he told a meeting of his centre-left Labour party."

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