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Pages showing how the meaning is reversed by changing the date of a speech.
The speech was made on Friday 1 July 2016; the date given in the claim falls on a Thursday, and for twenty-two years the exegesis lesson has been held on a Friday.
The words do not change, the recording does: a three-to-five-second excerpt, a date shifted, an addressee replaced. This is the common ground of the pages under this heading.
His speech of 1 July was clipped and circulated by pro-government news sites — a-haber chief among them — and by troll accounts, together with claims that he had known about the coup a day in advance and that he had threatened President Erdoğan. In reality it was an analysis made for an entirely different purpose and about other events, and a sincere warning to the President and those around him.
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