Istanbul police arrest 4 Iranians on espionage charges

Istanbul police arrested Friday four Iranian citizens on suspicion of espionage, forgery of official documents and human trafficking.

Teams of the local police department’s Anti-Immigrant Smuggling and Border Gates Branch recovered 167 Turkish and foreign passports, most of them stolen, as well as other identification documents, driver’s licenses and spying equipment.

Police made the arrests and recovered the documents from a house in the city’s Esenyurt district following a tip-off regarding human trafficking and forgery.