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Istanbul police officials announced that authorities arrested a US diplomat in Turkey last month on suspicion of selling a forged passport to a Syrian citizen.
Authorities identified the diplomat on Wednesday with the initials, DJK Officials also said they had footage of the diplomat handing over his passport to a person they described as suspicious at Istanbul airport.
Police said the diplomat, who works at the US embassy in Beirut, has been in custody since his arrest on Nov. 11 with $ 10,000 in cash, they said. He was later charged in connection with suspicions of selling the document, the Turkish state-run Anadolu news agency said.
The Turkish news agency reported that the Syrian citizen was arrested and interrogated after he tried to fly to Germany with a passport bearing the name of DJK. The newspaper said that the Syrian was released pending possible proceedings against him for forging documents.
The US State Department has not yet commented on the matter.
US-Turkey relations have been strained in recent years, in part by the banning of members of US diplomatic staff from Ankara, which accuses them of links to a network that Turkey blames for organizing the failed 2016 military coup./VOA
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