Fact-Checking Türkiye monitors the factual accuracy of various news and statements about Turkey.
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International Conference on Occupied Palestinian Territories
İşgal Altındaki Filistin Toprakları Hakkında Uluslararası Konferans
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❌FALSE CLAIM: “Turkey is covering up femicides as suicides.”
✅FACT: There have been 267 deliberate killings within the scope of the Law on the Protection of the Family and the Prevention of Violence against Women.
factcheckingturkey.com/women…
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❌German @DIEZEIT's false claim: #HDP could help solving the PKK massacre of 13 Turkish civilians in #Gara
✅Fact: A lawmaker for the HDP contacted #PKK and said:
📌“They’ll be [the PKK’s] guests for a while, then released.” HOWEVER, they were executed!
factcheckingturkey.com/domes…
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❌🇺🇸The U.S. Senators' letter to Joe #Biden has several mistakes.
✅Here are the facts about the claims in the letter:
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❌Claim: Establishment of new departments in #Bogazici University allow the new #rector to appoint government loyalists.
✅Fact: Personnels and academicians are appointed by merit rules.
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❌Claim: Turkey Arrests Dozens of #Students Protesting Erdogan’s Pick.
✅Fact: Only 7 of 108 suspects detained are #Bogazici University students; 101 suspects are not Bogazici University students, and 15 suspects do not receive university level education.
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❌The Jerusalem Post criticizes President Erdogan by saying "Erdogan failed to condemn the murderous Islamist attack on France’s magazine, Charlie Hebdo, back in 2015"
✅Fact: Erdogan condemns Charlie Hebdo attack, urges 'firm stance against intolerance'
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❌Claim: #Turkey tried to capture historical manuscripts in Libya!
✅#Libya rejects allegations of #Saudi Newspaper Ukaz on Turkey.
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❌Claim: "🇫🇷#French vessel was harassed" by #Turkey.
✅#NATO Investigation: Misconduct by Turkey was not found!
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The YPG does not hesitate to use even children for its smear campaign against Turkey's anti-terror operation in northern Syria.
The woman in the video, in two different locations, claims that her child was killed in airstrikes. Yet, her child appears to move her head and eyes.
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Story published in @Independent falsely claims Turkey gives "amnesty to rapists if their victims marry them."
Yet, reality is much different. See our #FactCheck: factcheckingturkey.com/women…
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💬Ekrem Imamoglu performed the inaugural speech of the 53rd IAPC’s World Conference
👉The claims he stated in his speech are the very violations he made against democracy:👇
❌Threatened businessmen&artists
❌Humiliated NGO rep.
❌Ignored what the ppl. of Istanbul ask for
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❌Financial Times claims Turkey’s president does not look kindly on artists or intellectuals
✅Contrary to what Financial Times implies, Erdogan has often encouraged artists and intellectuals
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A Guardian columnist (@dansabbagh) claims PKK's Syrian offshoot YPG/PYD is "inspired" by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan.
But there's ample evidence showing YPG "is" PKK.
Read our fact-check: factcheckingturkey.com/syria…
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A US General reveals that they said to YPG:
"'You have got to change your brand. What do you want to call yourselves besides the YPG?' With about a day's notice they declared they are the Syrian Democratic Forces."
Watch our video fact-check:
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Three factual mistakes from France 24:
❌A peacefull convoy as "Turkish ultranationalists storm Armenian nbhds"
❌“the Bakirkoy which is largely Armenian” where 13 % Turkish-Armenian citizens lives in the district
❌Osmanbey nbhd as "Kurtulus nbhd"
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🇹🇷 Foreign Affairs: Nikos Dendias' claims are untrue & aimed to mislead the public opinion
📌The exploratory talks halted by 🇬🇷's request in 2016
📌Despite our warnings, 🇬🇷's exercise on the 🇹🇷's Republic day is to devoid of good intentions
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