Oleg Tsarev and Igor Dmitriev, former Ukrainian politicians who defected to Russia in 2014, found themselves in the spotlight after posting false information about a terrorist attack in Turkey on their Telegram channels.
They claimed that one of the perpetrators of the attack was a certain Farah Karim, associated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). However, it turns out that Farah Karim is a fictional character from the Call of Duty video game series.
Oleg Tsarev already deleted his post after realizing the mistake, but Igor Dmitriev’s message is still available on his channel. Dmitriev argued that the woman’s participation in the attack was “demonstrative” and detailed the role of women in the Kurdish YPG self-defense forces.
“Women confidently holding weapons is a characteristic of the Kurdish People’s Self-Defense Forces, YPG. About a third of the units were made up of women and had a different name, YPJ, but they participated in combat as equals. In this way, the PKK Kurds demonstrated that their women had the same status as men. Unlike Muslim groups,” Dmitriev wrote.
However, the real Farah Karim does not exist; She is the heroine of the Call of Duty game series, where she acts as the founder of the liberation forces of Urzykstan, a fictional country.
Recall that on October 23, a terrorist attack occurred on the territory of the TUSAŞ aircraft plant in Ankara. As a result of the explosion and subsequent attack by the militants, five people were killed and 22 more were injured. Two terrorists were eliminated. In response to the attack, the Turkish military carried out attacks against PKK-linked targets in Iraq and Syria.
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