February 2018

Claim: Turkey used chemical gas in Afrin

2018-02-18 11:23 GMT
Posted in:
Syria
English
The Syrian regime’s news agency SANA claimed on 17 February 2018 that the Turkish military used chemical gas in Afrin and this claim made it to some of the international media outlets as well. It was reported that six civilians suffered breathing difficulties and two of them were fatally injured in a poison gas attack “carried out by the Turkish military”.
 

Claim: Latest constitutional referendum abolishes confirmation process of high-court judges

2018-02-16 09:14 GMT
Posted in:
Authoritarianism
English
Soner Cagaptay had an article published on the Wall Street Journal on 13 February 2018. In the article, the author claims that the new constitution in Turkey which was approved in a referendum in 2017 enables the president to directly appoint the high-court judges without any process in between.
 

Does Turkey violate international law in the Eastern Mediterranean by blocking hydrocarbon research?

2018-02-13 11:49 GMT
Posted in:
News
English
The Italian energy company ENI announced on 8 February 2018 that it had discovered substantial natural gas resources in the southern offshore Cyprus. The gas field is reported to be the largest ever discovered in the Mediterranean.
 

Three misperceptions in international media about the Kurdish issue

2018-02-09 06:31 GMT
Posted in:
Kurdish Issue
English

Since Turkey started a military operation in Afrin to clear its border from terrorist elements including the PKK, its Syrian offshot the YPG and remaining DAESH remnants, a number of false claims have been made in various news articles. As Fact-Checking Turkey, we gathered three important points that are misleadingly stated in news stories regarding the Kurdish issue in Turkey.

CLAIM 1: Turkey pursues hardline policies on Kurds

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