There was a post from a mass media site the other day saying Turkey was approving Sweden to join NATO. This turned out to be a bit of wishful thinking.

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    1 year ago

    Did they not know that Quran burning was propaganda? It happened, but it happened specifically to split Sweden from Turkey. I think it was discovered the person was working for Russia.

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      1 year ago

      Most folk in Turkey can’t consume media from outside sources as they (genuinely) lack the language skills. Turkish media is either just tabloids or state owned propoganda.

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      1 year ago

      Why would Turkish media tell them? They are controlled by Erdogan (where public tv reports about the election didn’t even mention his opponent by name… he was just “that other guy”).

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      1 year ago

      Well not sure about that, the Danish guy that did it have been doing similar things for a while. So while maybe it was somehow encouraged I’m sure he could have gotten the brilliant idea himself. What a genius display of free speech it was…