Germany arrests three Turks accused of spying

The prosecutors in Germany said that they arrested three men of Turkish origin on charges of spying in Germany for Turkish intelligence agency.

The federal prosecutor's office said two of the suspects — identified in line with German privacy rules only as Muhmammed Taha G. and Goksel G. — were arrested Wednesday at Frankfurt airport. The third, Ahmet Duran Y., was arrested at his home in the Nordrhein Westfallen in western Germany.

The 58-year-old Taha G. is accused of running the other two as agents, and they collected information for him on Turks in Germany as well as their organizational structures", said the prosecutor’s office in a statement on Thursday.

The prosecutors did not elaborate on when the spying took place but said warrants were issued againt the three Turkish suspects on Nov 11th.

The three suspects were ordered to be kept in custody pending a possible indictment.  

The officials in Ankara denied that the suspects were linked to the National Intelligence Organisation, or MIT.