The suspects have been pretending to work as private consultants but their real mission was to spy on Palestinians and Palestinian-operated groups and NGOs, according to Turkish officials.

They were paid by Mossad to spy on Palestinian targets and hand personal information and data to zionist agents.

While seven suspects have been formally arrested by an Istanbul court, security forces are still looking for 13 fugitive suspects.

In a sign of warming ties, Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited Turkey to meet with Erdogan in March.

In August, the office of the zionist regime’s Prime Minister Yair Lapid announced that two countries had decided to restore full diplomatic ties and will return ambassadors to each other's country.

Lapid and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met at the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September.

It was the first meeting between israel's prime minister and Turkey's president in 14 years, meaning a sign of warming ties between the countries. (ILKHA)