Turkey’s 1948 history video filled with lies and Pallywood

Turkey’s state English language  broadcaster TRT World put out a mini-documentary on the “nakba”.

It is filled with errors, lies and false photographs.

Here are only a few.

They said this is a photo of Deir Yassin.

 

It isn’t. It’s a photo of the Sabra and Shatila massacre done by Christian Phalangists in Lebanon.

They also said this was Deir Yassin:

 

It isn’t. It is a photo of the Gestapo concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora.

They said Deir Yassin started the mass exodus of Palestinians.

 

It didn’t. They started to flee in December 1947, starting with the upper and middle class. Later the rumors about Deir Yassin hastened many to leave but part of the reason was that their leaders had already fled.

The video shows a graphic indicating Lydda (Lod) and Ramle are across the Green Line.

 

They are, of course, in Israel, and they still have significant numbers of Arabs.

The video claims that somehow Jordan was “gifted” with the West Bank.

 

No, it annexed it and this annexation was not recognized by nearly all the nations of the world. (In this case TRT might have meant that the UK gave Jordan political cover for the annexation.)

 

The video is filled with similar errors and lies. But Turkey positions TRT World as a kind of BBC that can be trusted.

Obviously, it cannot. It is propaganda, not news.

(h/t Tomer Ilan)