{"id":11352,"date":"2024-05-10T22:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T19:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=11352"},"modified":"2024-05-10T22:00:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T19:00:22","slug":"greek-court-sentences-former-official-at-turkish-consulate-to-prison-on-spying-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=11352","title":{"rendered":"Greek court sentences former official at Turkish consulate to prison on spying charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/greek-court-sentences-former-official-at-turkish-consulate-to-prison-on-spying-charges.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>A Greek appeals court has sentenced a man who worked for a Turkish consulate to five years in prison on spying charges, legal sources said on Friday, in a case that had strained relations between the NATO allies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cypru-video-ads\" id=\"cypru-2035936808\">\n<div id=\"cypru-682186278\" data-cypru-trackid=\"478051\" data-cypru-trackbid=\"1\" class=\"cypru-target\">\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-8857523560316-0\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The man, a Greek national employed with the Turkish consulate on the island of Rhodes, was\u00a0arrested\u00a0in 2020.<br \/>\nHe had denied any wrongdoing and Turkey\u2019s foreign ministry had condemned the arrest, saying it violated the then consular official\u2019s rights.<br \/>\nA second Greek national, who worked as a cook on a passenger ship operating the Rhodes-Kastelorizo line, and who was arrested at the same time, has also been sentenced to three years in prison. He had also denied any wrongdoing.<br \/>\nKastelorizo is a small Greek island just off the Turkish coast.<br \/>\nThe two had been under surveillance for months before their arrest and they were accused of photographing the movements of Greek armed forces in the Aegean Sea.<br \/>\nGreece and Turkey have long-running issues that divide them, ranging from the divided island of Cyprus to exploration rights in the Aegean and Mediterranean Sea.<br \/>\nIn December, both countries agreed to\u00a0reboot their relations, establishing a roadmap designed to usher in a new era of closer ties between them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Greek appeals court sentenced a man who worked for a Turkish consulate to five years in prison on spying charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5830,6020,232,1340,3894,1136,1469,932,3,191,8903,250,3330,747,9534,2796,1394,4361,147,8232,292,2825,3331,131,3522,1812,3260,124,9536,177,9535,6305],"class_list":["post-11352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","tag-aegean-sea","tag-armed-forces","tag-arrest","tag-arrested","tag-charges","tag-closer-ties","tag-coast","tag-court","tag-cyprus","tag-divided-island","tag-follow","tag-google","tag-google-news","tag-greece","tag-greek-appeals-court","tag-issues","tag-man","tag-mediterranean","tag-mediterranean-sea","tag-movements","tag-nato","tag-new-era","tag-news","tag-prison","tag-relations","tag-rights","tag-sea","tag-ship","tag-spying-charges","tag-turkey","tag-turkish-consulate","tag-who"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Greek court sentences former official at Turkish consulate to prison on spying charges<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Spying. 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