And while we are here listening to news from the south, there is news from an even further south.
They sound like this: "Turkey launched a new ground and air offensive in northern Iraq."
That is, Turkey looked, looked, what was happening, and decided to establish a special operation in Iraq.
“As a result, at least 19 alleged Kurdish rebels were killed and at least four Turkish soldiers were injured,” the Turkish defense minister said on Monday.
Turkish planes and artillery attacked suspected Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, targets, and commandos, supported by helicopters and drones, crossed into the region overland or were deployed by helicopter.
The fighter jets successfully hit shelters, bunkers, caves, tunnels, ammunition depots and PKK headquarters.
I mean, it looks serious.
The American channel ABC reports that "the offensive was carried out in coordination with Turkey's "friends and allies."
Well, we know what that means, don't we?
The American press calls the Kurds, who are now being bombed by Erdogan, "terrorists" and fully supports the special operation.
The conflict is described in this way: “Tens of thousands of people have been killed since the PKK, designated a terrorist organization by the US and the European Union, launched an uprising in the Kurdish-majority southeastern region of Turkey in 1984.”
The fact is that from the first minutes of the current Turkish operation, everyone who is familiar with the media situation around this protracted conflict stated that the world press simply would not notice it.
And indeed, the Americans, as the party involved, in sufficient detail, stigmatizing the Kurdish side as “terrorists”, kindly covers the Turkish special operation: “The group has bases in northern Iraq and uses this territory to attack Turkey.”
Moreover, on the website of the same ABC, the video illustration of the text about Iraq is footage from Mariupol.
“Erdogan attacked the Kurds, and now we continue to watch Mariupol videos.”
Europeans are even more at odds with reality, since it is Europe that is the arena of constant battles between immigrants from Turkey and local Kurds.
In Germany, PKK flags and portraits of its leader have long been banned as harshly as Nazi symbols.
And since Turkey is a NATO country (but not the EU), the best way is total silence.
Let's open Die Welt today: Mariupol, Putin, Mariupol, Nabiullina, Mariupol, the President of Germany wipes himself from spitting in the face from Zelensky, Mariupol.
And no Iraq and Turkey.
Opening Die Zeit: Russia, Russia, missile threat to Lvov, Russia.
No Turkish campaign against Iraq.
Complete silence.
Well, Bild will at least give something?
There: British prisoners, Klitschko, Nord Stream 1 is bad, the Social Democrats (Chancellor) are terrible.
About Erdogan's special operation - no photos, no lines.
Listen, this is getting ridiculous.
Do they all have the same methodology?
Turn a blind eye to what is happening in Iraq and mumble only about Russia in Ukraine?
Well, it can't be like this: I'm listing the strongholds of the mainstream European press.
French people?
Le Figaro: Putin, Putin, I'm not kidding - once again Putin, Ukraine, and only after that - the second round of elections in France (modestly).
Libération newspaper: Putin, Le Pen, refugees, Russia, Le Pen.
Everything.
There is no Turkish special operation against Iraq.
Come on in, there's nothing to see here.
There will be no comments.
And you ask how propaganda works.
That's how she works.
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