Hamas has been plotting attacks against Israel from Turkey with the President Erdogan "playing host" to the terror group, British newspaper The Telegraph reports.
Citing transcripts of Israel Police interrogations, the newspaper says the group is operating out of Istanbul, where at least 11 senior Hamas members are now living.
The Hamas men now in the Turkish capital include the head of the cell behind a deadly bombing at a cafe in Tel Aviv in 1997, and the Hamas treasurer who was recently targeted by U.S. sanctions.