Lies and Videotape: Trucks, Weapons and Turkey’s Spiraling Descent
Gareth H. Jenkins
On June 2, 2015, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called for the editor of Turkey’s oldest newspaper to be sentenced to life in prison after the daily published evidence apparently showing that the Turkish government had lied about sending weapons to extremist groups in Syria.
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