Posted on 11/14/2017 9:07:21 AM PST by Texas Fossil
On July 15, 2016, an American college professor named Henri Barkey convened an academic workshop about Iran at a hotel on an island near Istanbul. That night, elements of the Turkish military attempted a coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that quickly failed but triggered a massive campaign of repression which continues to this day. Barkey went through with his conference, spent a couple of days in Istanbul and flew home.
To Barkey’s astonishment, he soon became a target of the world’s newest political weapon: fake news, in the form of a feverish, government-sponsored campaign. Pro-Erdogan media claimed that Barkey was on the island of Buyukada not to discuss Iran’s foreign relations with fellow academics but to direct the coup operation on behalf of the CIA.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The Washington ComPost accusing someone of Propaganda? That which is their stock and trade daily?
Honestly, the article about Erdogan the Islamist Dictator of Turkey and his propaganda campaign is pretty accurate. The amazing part is their own hypocrisy.
Everything I know about FAKE NEWS I learned from the Washington Post.
Bingo! We have a Winner.
CNN is Fake News? And The W/ComPost is Fake News #2.
Agree on BOTH counts!!!
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