ISTANBUL
Türkiye’s Center for Combating Disinformation announced Sunday that a claim by Israel that the Palestinian group Hamas killed an innocent person based on images depicting an execution shared by the Israeli Foreign Ministry and official state accounts is not accurate.
“It has been determined that the images in question were taken during the public execution of a drug trafficker in Iran in the year 2014,” the center, which is under Türkiye’s Communications Directorate, said on X.
“As a result of the ongoing efforts of our Center for Combating Disinformation since Oct. 7, we have exposed over 100 intentional false news stories regarding Israel’s attacks on Gaza and revealed the truth,” said Türkiye’s Communications Director Fahrettin Altun.
