Is it true that the famous cook Nusret Gokche forbade the Russians to enter their restaurant?

In May 2023, there were reports that in the restaurant of the Turkish chef from the popular meme, an announcement “For Russian entrance is prohibited” was dispersed. We found out whether such a restriction is acting in the institution.

Publications on the ban were massively spreading closer to the evening of May 19, 2023. In some Telegram channels It was saidWhat the news was shared by their subscribers with whom On vacation in Turkey It happened Unpleasant situation. According to them, during a visit to the restaurant of the NUSR-ST network, which belongs to gokche, Russian citizens were not allowed inside, pointing to the new rule of the institution. In the viral photo, the deskshin racks are visible, one of which depicts Nusret himself (in some posts it is erroneous called “Nurset”) in its proprietary position, the restaurant logo and the inscription in English: “No Russian Visitors” (“For Russians, the entrance is prohibited” or literally “no Russian visitors”). The owner allegedly motivated such a decision with the support of the pro-Western presidential candidate Kemal Kylychdaroglu, which is why citizens of the Russian Federation "became undesirable in some places in Turkey." At the same time, it is sometimes clarified that the innovation itself Not commented And what is the speech It goes Only about his establishment in Istanbul, namely Nusr -T Steakhouse etiler.

The “Russophobic rule” was told by such Telegram channels as “Live broadcast"(713,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), Voblya (205,000), "Uncle Glory"(159,000),"The first folk"(152 000),"Operation Z"(149,000),"Ostashko! Important"(118 000),"Federation"(114 000),"What happened?"(106 000),"From the scene"(100,000),"Ukraine.ru"(90 000),"Urgent news"(95,000),"Special operation z"(90 000),"Petya the first"(72 000),"KD 18+"(70 000), 4Chan (61 000), 360TV (35,000), "Summary"(19,000), DONBASS Devushka (18,000), Pravda.ru (15,000) and "Before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation"(12 000). In "VKontakte»Many verified publics shared the news of the ban, among which"Tsargrad TV channel"(31 000),"NTV"(22,000), URA.RU (29,000) and "Cube media"(3000). In addition, such publications are found on Twitter (examples here, here And here), Facebook* (here And here) and some media: ""Economics today","Folk news" And "Truth.ru".

The owner of the Turkish network of steak-haush Nusret Gokche received World fame in January 2017, when his video was encircled in which he cuts meat in a special way and sprinkles with salt. On the Internet Nusret received the nickname Salt Bae and became live meme, and at the time of writing this text on its Instagram* more than 53 million people are signed. Restator Often gets into Scandalswhich they write about as Turkish, so Foreign The media, however, in the foreign press “verified” it was not possible to find any references to the ban on servicing Russians in the Gokche establishment, which seems strange, given the resonant character of the information farm and the level of attention of the press to the chef's person. There are also no videos or photos in social networks where the prohibitive inscription was visible from other angles. In addition, if the ban is focused only on Russians, it is strange that the phrase is not duplicated in Russian.

According to the official Nusr-Set site, the network counts 22 points in different countries, including the United States, Great Britain, Greece and others, but the news about the ban appeared only from visitors to the same institution in Turkey, although there the chef owns nine restaurants, six of which in Istanbul. It seems logical that the policy of non -service Russians be extended to all 22 establishments, but there are no such messages from other places.

However, in the publications the wrong name of the restaurant is still indicated. We compared the interior in a viral photo with numerous Pictures from Nusr-Ta Steakhouse etiler, and the situation there is completely different. In fact in the picture captured Relus of the reception in Nusr-aet Steakhouse Sandal Bedesteni (also in Istanbul), at the same time, according to the photos we found, the inscriptions should be applied to special signs, and not on the racks themselves, as shown in the viral image.

In most publications, a viral photo contains a Telegram channel “Rybar” (354,000 views), where the picture laid out May 19 at 23:00 Moscow time. However, the earliest post, which traveled "verified", appeared Three hours earlier at Tarik_news (6000). There the photo was accompanied by such a text: “They write to us:“ It’s just to@pets. We went with my husband on vacation to Turkey, decided to go to a really good restaurant. We came to Nusr -et and see it “Russians cannot be there!” We were certainly outraged, we were decently behaved, we just came to dinner. They said that they support the ideology of the second candidate for elections, this is with this. “Filled by the name”, and now they limited the entrance to Russian clients. photo And videoat the same time some From fake pictures were also allegedly sent subscribers.

The very next day, May 20, Life publication Published The refutation, according to which Nusret did not forbid the Russians to visit his institution. They reported that the restaurateur on his Instagram laid out Storiz, where, against the backdrop of a viral photo, he wrote the phrase “Form News” in Russian and English. The screenshot of publication is also attached to the Life material. Since earlier the publication More than once Participated In the replication of fakes, it is difficult to consider a rather reliable source, but we found information about this story in three Telegram channels, where screenshots are made at different times, and they can see profiles in different languages: Russian, Turkish and Ukrainian. At the same time, in one of the channels they even brought link on the story of Nusret, although it is already inaccessible, and its preserved copy Unfortunately, it does not work in the web archive, so it is not possible to check it.

Note that some large Telegram channels complemented the original posts, clarifying that Nusret refuted the news-among them the same "Rybar", "Ax 18+"(1.7 million views) and"Mousetrap"(220,000). However, it is not known how many people saw the posts before the renewal. And, for example, the host of "Solovyov Live" Sergey Karnaukhov simply Removed Your post (12,000) without any refutations and/or apology.

*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns social networks Facebook and Instagram, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.

Photo on the cover: @nusr_et (Instagram)

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