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As Turkey Is Flooded With State-Sponsored Fake News, Confusion Abounds on America | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com

As Turkey Is Flooded With State-Sponsored Fake News, Confusion Abounds on America
by Burak Bekdil
OPINION

In 2018, the Turkish police began to raid onion wholesalers on suspicion that they were artificially raising onion prices and trying to “illegally overthrow” the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Pro-government headlines included “Police find onions in onion storehouse,” which in America would be a headline from The Onion. At around the same time, Erdogan claimed the US was plotting to economically damage Turkey just as his government signed a deal with US management consultant McKinsey to help Ankara implement a new medium-term economic program.

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