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A Greek appeal court has sentenced a man who worked for a Turkish consulate to five years in prison on spying charges, according to Reuters. The man, a Greek national employed with the Turkish consulate on the island of Rhodes, was arrested in 2020. He had denied any wrongdoing and Turkiye’s foreign ministry had condemned the arrest, saying it violated the then consular official’s rights. A second Greek national, who worked as a cook on a passenger ship operating the Rhodes-Kastelorizo line, was also sentenced by the court. Before their arrest, these two suspects had been under surveillance fo…