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The head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, Tamir Pardo, met secretly with the Turkish intelligence agency’s undersecretary, Hakan Fidan, on June 10 in Ankara, with Syria, Iran and the Gezi Park protests on the agenda, Turkey’s daily Hurriyet reported Wednesday.

According to the report, Pardo claimed to have information that Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Syrian intelligence were working against Turkey.

Hurriyet reported that Fidan and Pardo discussed the ongoing protests in Turkey, which started two weeks ago to oppose a development project in Istanbul’s Taksim Gezi Park, and spread to the other parts of the country.

The two intelligence officials discussed the “possible influence of the intelligence organizations of regional countries on the Gezi Park protests in Turkey.”

Pardo, according to the newspaper, requested an appointment to meet with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Erdoğan, however, has not yet responded to this request.

Fidan and Pardo shared information about the latest situation in Syria as well as the influence of Iran on the country. They also discussed intelligence sharing between the two countries at the meeting, which came before a significant meeting on the fate of Syria, the Geneva II summit set to take place in July, Hurriyet reported.