DW fact-check finds Erdogan showed rally fake video seeming to link election rival to terrorist group

By bne IntelIiNews A video shown at an election campaign rally by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that seems to link main rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu to a Kurdish group designated as terrorist has been exposed as fake. Research by the fact-checking team of German public media outlet DW, in cooperation with DW’s Turkish service, concluded that the video presented by Turkey’s leader on May 7 “was manipulated by combining two separate videos with totally different backgrounds and content”, DW reported on May 8. The findings come four days after Kilicdaroglu, in an interview with KRT televisio…

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