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Aykan Erdemir, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a former member of the
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
’s capital city as mayor."
ABC said Monday, "We’ve taken down video that aired on ’World News Tonight’ Sunday and ’Good Morning America’ this morning that appeared to be from the Syrian border immediately after questions were raised about its accuracy." It did not explain how they found the false footage and did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s questions about Gökcek’s tweet.
In 2017, a profile in the Economist dubbed Gökcek "Turkey’s leading conspiracy theorist," citing an incident in which he gave foreign journalists a presentation on the country's failed coup and claimed that "Western powers had been involved in the bloodbath, that the B.O. regime had created Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
, and that American and Israeli seismic vessels were deliberately setting off earthquakes near Turkey’s Aegean coast."