Six people detained in Turkey with Russian passports are immigrants from Chechnya, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in the Turkish police. Previously, CNN TURK TV channel reported that the Turkish special services detained six people with passports of the Russian Federation on suspicion of espionage. According to the channel, the raids were held in Istanbul and Antalya. The nationality of the detainees was then not reported.
also became known, except for Russian passports, the security forces found from the detained weapons. The attackers, according to preliminary data, planned attacks on foreigners in order to obtain secret information. They are accused of “political and military espionage.”
In the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that she was followed by the situation with the detention of six citizens in Turkey.
At the same time, the Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin cannot comment on the data on the detention in Turkey Russians, since it does not have such information.