Is it true that such posters with Putin and Erdogan appeared in Turkey?

At the end of February 2024, Runet went around the video allegedly shot by the indignant Ukrainian. It is reported that he did not like that banners with portraits of the presidents of Turkey and Russia were placed on a house in a certain Turkish city. We checked the truthfulness of the viral video.

The five -second video was shot, reportedly in an unnamed Turkish city - the flags of this country hung over the street were in the frame. At the same time, two banners with images of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin are stretched on the wall of a multi -storey building. On the posters, the inscription Refah Için Için işbirliği (“Cooperation for the sake of prosperity”) is also visible. In posts on social networks Approvedthat the author of the video is a Ukrainian who escaped from mobilization to Turkey, and a male voice sounds behind the scenes: “Warm, Yaki P *** EC” (“Look, what kind of P *** EC”).

Such publications were widely dispersed into Telegram, where the channels told about this video "Pozdnyakov 3.0"(285,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"KB"(233,000),"Truthfulness"(215 000),"Observer"(213 000),"Uncle Glory"(195 000),"Putin in Telegram"(161 000), Voblya (154,000), "Sheikh Tamir"(144 000), Rus_criminal (144,000) and others. There is a viral video in VKontakte (examples here, here, here, here And here), Tiktok and x (here And here), as well as on some news sites.

Video: social networks

“Verified” failed to find a video and photos on the network in which posters would be captured from another angle. The Turkish media did not report them either. The earliest publication that we managed to find by keywords appeared on February 26 at 17:34 Moscow time in the Telegram channel "Freshness"(46,000 views). This channel is already repeatedly Facing In the analysis of “verified”, and a significant part of these texts was dedicated to fabricated videos and more than once in the “freshness” they appeared for the first time.

Having made a screenshot video, “verified” the reverse search by the image and found out that the video was shot in Istanbul. The building on which the posters were allegedly placed, located on the street mulillif, and during the record, the author of the video He was On a neighboring street, hesitates.

On March 7, “verified” asked a resident of Istanbul to go to the same address and take a picture of this location. It turned out that at that time completely different posters hung on the wall without Putin’s image - they are dedicated to local elections that pass March 31, 2024. The Banner on the right shows Erdogan and the mayor of Istanbul from the Presidential Party Murat Kurum, and on the left is the head of the Bayglu district - Haidar Ali Yildiz.

Comparison of a screenshot from a viral video (left) with a picture taken on March 7, 2024 (right). Photo: collage "Checked" / social networks

The placement of posters on this house in March, differing from the viral video, could be explained by the fact that a week and a half has passed since the beginning of the spread of the video, so banners could be changed. However, on the website of the German photo agency IMAGO represented A picture taken almost in the same place on February 26. The same posters with Turkish politicians without Putin are captured there.

Photo: Site page screenshot Imago-images.com

On the viral video, less obvious differences with photographs taken in Istanbul at the request of “verified” are also noticeable. For example, in these pictures there are no posted Turkish flags, people are dressed in warmer clothes, and trees have fewer foliage. With the help of a reverse search for the pictures, it was “verified” that similar banners hung on the same building in 2023. They were dedicated to the presidential election that passed in May. Only Erdogan was depicted on those posters (he then ran for his third term) and the phrase “doğru zaman was given. Doğru adam ”(“ Correct time. Correct person ”). Pictures of the wall of the same building with campaign banners in April and May 2023 published Reuters, The Economist, "Komsomolskaya Truth" Sputnik türkiye and other publications.

Photo: screenshots of site pages Reuters.com And Economist.com

Thus, Telegram channels and social networks distributed an mounted video: unknown people posted images of the President of the Russian Federation on a video shot in Istanbul last year. The creators of the fake added a sunset comment in Ukrainian - it is likely that in the signature to the video to reflect the popular Ukrainians who had “escaped from mobilization” in pro -Russian channels.

Photo on the cover: social networks

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