A few months ago I mocked reports about Ankara-Iraq drone deal as PR for Ankara drone industry repackaged by media. I was accused of critiquing the reports…well where are the drone deals?
🤔 just wondering because I stand by my theory it was PR nonsense passed off as reports
🤔 just wondering because I stand by my theory it was PR nonsense passed off as reports
I think a lot of pro-Ankara reports are basically PR spread by Ankara’s regime via friendly outlets that they make it look like a factual report when it’s like messaging
That is why we get so many false reports about the US and Turkey F-16 issues or study groups on F-35s; it’s always just a trial balloon
Ankara will also invent fake stories about “reconciliation” and then leak them to media like “Israel-Turkey reconciling” and “Egypt-Turkey reconciling” and never get comment from Israel or Egypt, it’s just reported as fact when it’s Ankara misinformation
Some drone deals are real, I think some of them are just PR and some are actually spreading misinformation like that one story about Greece buying Turkey drones…for instance
I think these stories should always be prefaced as “Turkey says”….not repackaged.
In the Iraq drone thing it was the Iraqis who talked but it was very preliminary and made to appear closer than it was
So I’ll believe it when the drones actually land in Baghdad…
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