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Kurdish journalist uses fake photographs to embarrass Yildirim at a press conference

Kurdish journalist uses fake photographs to embarrass Yildirim at a press conference

Ahmad Primo Ahmad Primo   Friday 16th February 2018

Ahmad Primo Ahmad Primo   Friday 16th February 2018

A video recording broadcasted by several Arab and foreign television channels showed a press conference between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish Prime Minister Ben Ali Yildirim. One of the participating journalists rose pictures of injured children claiming they were victims of Operation Olive Branch launched by Turkey with opposition factions in Afrin.

The journalist, who was said to be working for Kurdistan TV, showed in a few seconds several images of injured children with blood on one's face, while another showed a child with a head covered with medical gauze.

During the reverse search conducted by Verify-Sy platform on the images that the journalist raised during the conference, it was found that at least two children who were photo/graphed were hit by shelling of the Assad forces in different areas and times in Syria, and have nothing to do with the Operation "Olive Branch."

One of the photos raised by the journalist during the conference was taken on August 16, 2016, for a child who was wounded in an aerial bombardment on the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo while receiving treatment at Al-Quds Hospital in eastern Aleppo.

The second photo raised by the journalist, was also taken on November 29, 2015, for a Syrian child was hit in shelling by Assad forces on Duma city in Ghouta of Damascus, which taken by a photo/grapher of the Reuters news agency in the region, Bassam Khbayia.


Verify-Sy couldn't verify the rest of the photos raised by the journalist during the conference because they are unclear in the recordings available about the conference.

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