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2019-10-16 Home Front: WoT
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'Disinformation': Kentucky video ABC said was 'slaughter in Syria' was spread by Turkish politician
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[WashingtonExaminer] ABC News ran multiple segments incorrectly claiming that the "footage obtained by ABC News" showed Ottoman Turkish attacks against the Kurds in a Syrian border town, though in truth it was footage from a biannual pyrotechnic event at a West Point, Kentucky, gun range in 2016 or 2017.
Aykan Erdemir, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a former member of the Ottoman Turkish Parliament, confirmed the translation with the Washington Examiner. "That is indeed the source of this piece of misinformation," Erdemir said. "Melih Gökcek, the former mayor of Ankara, is notorious for being a social media troll, as well as for running disinformation campaigns." He added, "He was infamous for spending more time trolling on social media than governing The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
’s capital city as mayor."
ABC said Monday, "We’ve taken down video that aired on ’World News Tonight’ Sunday and ’Good Morning America’ this morning that appeared to be from the Syrian border immediately after questions were raised about its accuracy." It did not explain how they found the false footage and did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s questions about Gökcek’s tweet.
In 2017, a profile in the Economist dubbed Gökcek "Turkey’s leading conspiracy theorist," citing an incident in which he gave foreign journalists a presentation on the country's failed coup and claimed that "Western powers had been involved in the bloodbath, that the B.O. regime had created Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, and that American and Israeli seismic vessels were deliberately setting off earthquakes near Turkey’s Aegean coast." |
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