The claim shared by some social media accounts that "Documents from Al Jazeera's live broadcast show that rockets were fired at Israel and one of the rockets failed and landed on a hospital" is false. The news article cited as the basis for the allegation mentions Israel's bombardment of Gaza. The news article has no relevance to the claims. Immediately after Israel's bombing of the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in GazaHananya Naftali, the former digital media officer of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared a post announcing that "the Israeli Air Force has hit a hospital in Gaza". It was...
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The al-Zaytoun neighbourhood in the north of Gaza is an area where hundreds of civilians have been killed in days of intense Israeli bombardment. Examining the footage of the bombing of al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza's al-Zaytoun neighbourhood, it becomes obvious that the ammunition that had the effect of destroying the area was not the type that Hamas had previously employed. The claim that "Hamas, not Israel, carried out the attack" on the hospital is false. It was found that the images shared by Israeli propaganda accounts claiming that a "Hamas missile hit the hospital" were from 2022. In a recent...
Presidency's Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun shared a post in English on his social media account on the Israeli attack on a hospital in Gaza. Altun stated the following: "Bombing hospitals is a grave crime. Massacring people who are receiving medical attention is simply beyond the pale. Targeting civilians is employing terror tactics, pure and simple. Unconscionable attacks such as the one reported against the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City is unacceptable. Innocent civilians in the thousands have suffered more than enough. This must stop. Period. As President Erdoğan stated, the whole world must come together to...
In a post on social media, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called on all humanity to take action to stop the unprecedented atrocity in Gaza. President Erdoğan said, "Striking a hospital where there are women, children, and innocent civilians is the latest example of Israel's attacks devoid of fundamental human values. I call on all humanity to take action to stop this unprecedented atrocity in Gaza."
The call addressed the conflicts that are becoming more and more violent between Israel and Palestine as well as steps aimed at ensuring calm. Sharing with his Brazilian counterpart Türkiye’s offers of solution for a lasting peace, President Erdoğan said no country should add fuel to the fire, and that concrete steps should be taken by all regarding humanitarian aid within the framework of human rights.
"Media and Local Governments Panel" was organised in Düzce in cooperation with the Presidency's Directorate of Communications, the International Media Information Association (UMED) and the municipality. Journalist authors Zafer Şahin, Ersin Çelik, Esra Elönü and Edip Üzen attended the panel at Prof. Dr. Erol Güngör Cultural Centre as speakers. Ersin Çelik stated that local governments have updated themselves concurrently with the emergence of social media since 2007. Asserting that social media has become indispensable in daily life as of 2007, Çelik remarked, "Local relations between the media and municipalities have become more intertwined." Previously, municipalities needed to promote...
In a post shared on his social media account, Presidency's Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun warned about being sensitive in posts about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Emphasizing that journalists and media organizations not only need to report accurate information but also fight disinformation campaigns conducted by all sorts of groups, Director of Communications Altun warned, saying, "However, it is not only the job of news professionals to ensure the veracity and credibility of information circulating in traditional and social media channels. The public needs to pay extra attention and care to the accurateness of news when sharing content. While the main...
Views were exchanged regarding the conflict between Israel and Palestine and numerous concerning developments, particularly the human rights violations in the region. President Erdoğan stated that Türkiye has been exerting all kinds of efforts for this conflict, which may lead to utterly negative consequences regionally and globally, to end, and will continue to do so. Noting that regional countries should endeavor to end the conflict and human rights violations as well as protecting the peace, and that they should give messages to the world to that effect, President Erdoğan said that it would be right to take...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke by phone with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of the United Kingdom. The call addressed the current situation in the Israel-Palestine conflict, policies that should be followed in order to restore peace in the region and urgent measures for the resolution of the severe humanitarian crises. Noting that the international community, the Western countries in particular, should effectively object to the human rights violations in Gaza, President Erdoğan stated that it is important to remember and deliver the unfulfilled promises made to Palestine over the years instead of taking provocative steps that deepen the...