Egyptian Prosecutor General Nabil Sadek ordered to detain 29 people accused of working for the Turkish intelligence, local media reported on Wednesday.
The suspected persons have been detained for 15 days, the Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported.
The detainees are reportedly members of the Muslim Brotherhood Islamist organisation. They are accused of harming the national interests of Egypt, membership in a terrorist organisation as well as money laundering.
The Egyptian-Turkish relations deteriorated in 2013 when former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was ousted by the country’s military. Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan condemned Morsi’s overthrow, as well as subsequent clashes between the Egyptian troops and Muslim Brotherhood’s supporters.
