Only days before Turkey's election, President Erdogan showed a video linking his main challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu to the militant Kurdish organization PKK. But research by DW's factchecking team and dw_turkce shows the footage was manipulated:
With this video, Erdogan purports to link his main rival to the PKK, which the Turkish government also considers to be a terrorist group. But is the video shown by Erdogan real? Did Karayilan appear in Kilicdaroglu's campaign video to show his support?Research by DW's fact-checking team in cooperation with DW's Turkish service shows that the video at the campaign rally was manipulated by combining two separate videos with totally different backgrounds and content.
. It is a typical political ad that asks people to vote, and promises victory at the polls. But it does not contain footage of Karayilan, or the PKK. This timestamp can be identified by focusing on Kilicdaroglu's words , the movement of his right arm, and the young people standing behind him. The video shows the PKK leader talking about what he calls the start of the PKK's armed struggle over three decades ago, according to the website where it was published — The article accompanying the video was published on August 15, 2021.
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