Turkish Foreign Ministry on Tuesday said that Israel’s Shin Bet accusations that the Turkish academic Cemil Tekeli is involved in providing military assistance to Hamas are “incompatible with reality”.
Spokesman for the Ministry Hami Aksoy said “We reject the unrealistic allegations introduced by the Israeli intelligence on the basis of some statements obtained from our detained citizen under ambiguous circumstances.”
The Israeli authorities on Sunday released Tekeli who is a professor from Istanbul Medeniyet University after detaining him for 26 days.
Tekeli who arrived in Turkey through Istanbul Atatürk Airport said that he was ill-treated stripped of his clothes and held handcuffed in a very cold room.
The Shin Bet on Monday released information about the arrest of Cemil Tekeli and a Palestinian from the 1948 occupied Palestine and claimed that they were recruited by Zaher Jabarin a senior Hamas figure who was released from Israeli jails in the Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner swap deal to transfer funds to Hamas.
The Shin Bet said that Tekeli revealed during interrogation that Turkey sends large amounts of money to Hamas through SADAT company which was established by Adnan Basha who is closely connected to Turkish government officials to help establish a Palestinian army to fight Israel.
