According to the research team, scans conducted at the location have revealed underground anomalies, including structures that appear to be corridors and chambers.

Ankara has openly hosted Hamas leaders, praised the Oct. 7 massacre, allowed flotillas to depart for Gaza from Turkish territory and made hostility toward Israel a centerpiece of its foreign policy.

Some analysts describe an emerging 'Sunni axis,' or noose, influenced by Muslim Brotherhood ideology, backed by Turkish military power, financed by Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and designed, by expanding into Gaza, to encircle and finish off Israel.