Altho Fox & others retracted some of this misinformation, propagandists know that first impressions are very difficult to eradicate. Unless the corrective info is repeated as often & w/ greater clarity than the lie, people tend to revert back to their initial faulty beliefs. 3/
Look, I know we all want to oppose the warmongering and authoritarianism of the US and UK. And that's good. But if we can't do so without uncritically defending actual genocidal fascists, then maybe we need to work on our analysis a bit more?
"“I am fine with this,” wrote Sheryl Sandberg in a 1 sentence message to a team that reviewed the page. Three years later, YPG’s photos and updates about the Turkish military’s brutal attacks on the Kurdish minority in Syria still can’t be viewed by Facebook users inside Turkey."
#kurds,The EU imposes sanctions on Russians over Navalny arrest, but why is Turkey , also CoI member, let off hook for giving Demirtas, ex HDP co chair,142 year sentence ? Ocalan, life , and keeping thousands protesting Erdogan’s dictatorship in jail?
Hier gibt der er ehemalige Leiter der Geheimdienstabteilung des Generalstabs der #Tuerkei, Ismail Hakkı Pekin vor laufenden Kameras zu, dass die #AKP Regierung Sakine Cansiz, Leyla Saylemez und Fidan Dogan in Paris öffentlich hingerichtet hat.
#100ReasonsToProsecuteErdogan
Retired Turkish Lt General accidentally admits Turkey was behind killing of Sakine Cansiz in Paris January 2013. Pekin was the former head of Turkey’s General staff Intelligence Agency 2007-2011 and retired in 2012, but is well familiar with Turkeys intelligence operations.
Former head of Intelligence of Turkish military admits on TV that killing of 3 prominent Kurdish women in Paris in 2013 was Turkey’s job.
Translation:
“....We need to do something about their (PKK’s) elements in Europe. It has been done in Paris before but” (he notices & stops)
Georgia House Republicans just introduced a bill to ban early voting on Sundays prior to election, when Black churches do Souls to the Polls get out the vote drives
@nytimes This is Fatima Mahmoud Raskelah, a Kurdish girl from Efrîn. Abducted by Ahrar al-Sharqiyah, the same group that murdered Kurdish feminist politician Hevrin Khalaf. She remains missing. She's just 16 years old.
@nytimes That this article does not share the perspective of those displaced from Afrin and those targeted by occupying forces there on a daily basis is shameful, and helps cover up a clear pattern of war crimes perpetrated by Turkey and the SNA.
[FACT CHECK]
The @nytimes recently published an article about the Turkish occupation of Afrin, calling it a ‘safe zone’. The article contains several inaccuracies about the situation on the ground, outlined below:
https://t.co/myNonZujub
@tomwatson And so it was that the good people of America clean forgot that Ted Cruz is a dangerous terrorist and not just an old-school, run-of-the-mill, lookin'-after-No1. politician.