Turkish woman released by Israel after charges of smuggling for Hamas

A Turkish woman arrested by Israel for allegedly transferring money to Hamas operatives last month has been released and is now in Turkey, according to Turkish media.

Ebru Ozkan, 27, had been charged last week in an Israeli military court with passing hundreds of dollars to the Hamas terrorist organization, security sources said.

She was detained at Israel’s Ben-Gurion airport on June 11 as she was leaving the country to return to Turkey.

Over a month later, early on Monday, she finally got on a plane to Istanbul.

At the airport in Istanbul she was met by reporters, according to the Turkish outlet Daily Sabah. “Thank God it is over. I am in my country, I am at peace,” she reportedly said. She also thanked Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan: “He was kind enough to be very interested in my case.”

— with AFP

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