The Turkish media’s Afrin test
REUTERS/Khalil AshawiTurkish-backed Free Syrian Army fighters walk as the sun sets in the eastern Afrin countryside, Syria, Feb. 6, 2018. DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — “Ground zero at the border” was a term the Turkish media used frequently in the 1990s when Turkey carried out cross-border military operations into northern Iraq to pursue militants of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Journalists covering the operations would say they were reporting from “ground zero at the border” to emphasize that they were at the Turkish-Iraqi frontier. Yet, at times, some of those who made that claim would in reality be kilometers away from the border.
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