CENTRAL NEWS
The media outlets owned by the fascist Turkish state continue to legitimize their neo-Ottoman occupation adventures in Artsakh by fabricating a notion that the PKK has deployed guerrillas to the area, claiming that Turkey is under a legitimate threat.
Footage captured during a press statement by the PKK in support with the FARC in 2014 was falsely portrayed as evidence of Armenia-PKK ties during a discussion programme yesterday on CNN Turk. The programme was titled: “PKK fighting alongside Armenian ASALA terrorists in Artsakh.”
In the light of the attacks being faced by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2014, top PKK commanders had shared a message of solidarity with the guerrilla group during a press conference. The CNN Turk used footage of this speech claiming that the bright orange-blue-red tricolour flag which was hung beside the flag of the PKK, was the flag of Armenia and proved that the PKK had deployed its guerrillas to the disputed Artsakh fronts.
The orange-blue-red tricolour flag seen in the photo actually belongs to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People’s Army (FARC), hence a map of Colombia on the flag, and not that of ASALA (Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia) as CNN Turk lied about.
CIA Evidence
The Turkish press had used the same photo as proof of Armenian-PKK ties in 2017. A news agency named Takvim had claimed that the photo was part of “documents leaked by the CIA”, which proved that “the PKK and ASALA were in alliance in the 1980s, that they carried out terrorist attacks together and that the PKK established units that included Armenian terrorists.”
