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Saturday, April 25, 2026

Turkey's disinformation election: Fake videos and misleading claims - Euronews

Turkey is set for a second round of voting after neither President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan nor his main rival Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu was able to secure a majority in Sunday's presidential election.

With no candidate having received more than 50% of the votes, the country is set for a runoff for the first time ever.

So far, the election campaign has been marred by disinformation on both sides. The Cube took a look at some of the most viral claims during the first round.

Was Kılıçdaroğlu supported by a terrorist organisation?

One of the most viral videos claimed to show Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu telling viewers: "Let's go to the ballot box together."

Later in the clip, Murat Karayilan, one of the founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) – classified as a terrorist entity in Turkey, the European Union and the United States – appears in the campaign video expressing his support.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan even shared this clip at a rally, asking the crowd whether they would vote for a candidate supported by a terrorist organisation.

But as multiple fact-checking sites as well as the tweet above have shown, the video is a montage. It's two separate and unrelated videos edited into one.

Did Erdoğan give out money to children at a polling station?

Did Erdoğan try to bribe his voters? That's the question certain social media users are asking after a video posted on Twitter shows the incumbent distributing banknotes to children at a polling station.

According to the fact-checking site...



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