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A Turkish court Sunday placed in detention five people suspected of turning over to Syria a founder of the Free Syrian Army who is reported to have since been executed, reports said.

The suspects ordered held by the court in the southern city of Adana include a member of Turkey's National Intelligence Organisation (MIT), the Anatolia news agency reported.

They are being investigated for "political espionage" and for deprivation of liberty in the case of colonel Hussein Harmush and Mustafa Kassum, it said.

The two men were taken out of a refugee camp in Altinozu, Hatay province, near the Syrian border "by force" and handed over to Syrian security forces, the Adana prosecutor's office said in a statement on Friday. [AFP]