Muhammed Taha

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s office has denied a report in a German magazine about Turkish National Intelligence Organization (M?T) spying in the country, which it described as ?fictional? and slanderous.

The Presidential Press Office stated that German magazine Focus had still not published a correction that it sent on July 9 concerning the report published on June 27.

Three Turks accused of spying on compatriots in Germany for the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MİT) had no links to either the spy agency or the Directorate of Overseas Turks, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told reporters Dec. 19.

The Turkish Consul in Karlsruhe has contacted one of the arrested three Turkish men accused of spying on compatriots in Germany for Turkish intelligence, while another, a Turkish national, refused to meet with the consul, a Turkish official has told the Hürriyet Daily News.

German prosecutors said Dec. 18 that they had arrested three Turkish men accused of spying on compatriots in Germany for Turkish intelligence, but Ankara denied that the suspects were linked to the National Intelligence Organization (MİT).