for questions about claims based in Turkey, or limited in Turkey.
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Are dollar bills seen by the Turkish government as a secret sign of connections to Gülen?
Turkeypurge.com has an article on the trial of a (Turkish-American) NASA scientist, convicted in Turkey:
The prosecutor submitted as evidence in the case a statement by an anonymous informant, a Bank Asya bank account belonging to Gölge and a one…
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Is this picture taken of the Armenian Genocide fake?
Is the photo captioned, a Turkish official taunting starving Armenians with bread" fake?
I believe the picture is most recently use in The Great Game of Genocide Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians, by Donald…
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Did NATO Air Forces start shooting down Russian fighter jets?
In the beginning of October, several news appeared claiming that Russian fighter jets intruded the air space of Turkey. They have been intercepted and escorted away from Turkish air space, but no fire was open.
On October, 10, British news agency…
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Did Turkey neutralize thousands of Syrian Army soldiers?
Operation Spring Shield was a Turkish military operation between from February 27 to March 3rd.
A Turkish news source article, Turkey neutralizes 3,000+ regime elements in Idlib, Syria reported on March 4th:
Turkish forces neutralized 3,136 regime…
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Did President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ask a little girl if she wanted to be a Martyr?
Today, the president of Turkey was all over the German news, which claimed that he asked a little girl in uniform (who was called onto the stage with him and crying, I do not want to go into his motives here... all politicians like to be seen with…
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Did Turkey use poison gas against the Kurds in 1937-38?
Baki Tezcan
writes in an LA Times opinion piece:
In the 1920s and ’30s, Kurdish citizens of Turkey were brutally massacred in military responses to rebellions. Those uprisings were also conveniently used by the ruling regime to suppress political…
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Did Fethullah Gülen "publicly boasted about his “soldiers” waiting for his orders to do whatever he directs them to do"?
According to this newsweek article, retired lieutenant general of the US army and America's president elect Donald Trump's pick for national security advisor, Michael Flynn said:
"Gülen portrays himself as a moderate, but he is in fact a radical…
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Turkish soldier with ISIS?
Oliver North posted this image on twitter and wrote
A Turkish soldier "visiting" an ISIS anti-aircraft unit at Kobani.
They look way too friendly.
Is the description of the image correct?
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Is there a publicly available video that shows Ali Erdoğan instructing a police official to abuse detainees?
The Wikipedia page for the 2013 corruption scandal in Turkey says:
On 24 December, another video began to circulate that shows Ali Erdoğan, nephew and bodyguard of Prime Minister Erdoğan, instructing a police commissioner to abuse the detainees who…
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Did Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan ask "Trump towers in Turkey to remove Trump name in Istanbul urgently"?
The details section of this November 9, 2016 YouTube video says:
Turkish President Erdogan asking Trump towers in Turkey to remove
Trump name in Istanbul urgently
Is it true?
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