Page 204 - America's Failure to Perceive the PKK

By displaying a picture of a PKK member hold-
ing a baby bear, The Washington Post tried to
exculpate the murderers who martyred 40,000
Turkish soldiers. Interestingly enough, such pro-
paganda efforts intensified when plans for
Turkey's Balkanization came out.

Portraying a terrorist like a sym-
bol of compassion and presenting this
notion through one of the world's
biggest newspapers, and usually
choosing Middle Eastern writers to
create this perception, is an example of this engineering tactic we
have been describing. The deep states of the Western world are using

this tactic in such crude, common and conspicuous ways that they are
clearly not concerned if their true aim is recognized or not. After all,
there is no one that can criticize the said media dictatorship or say
"stop."

This perception operation surely has significant effects. Western
societies, in particular, through the information they gain from these
publications alone, regard the PKK as a wronged group of people and

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