his pen has been broken

6 entries

Pages on how this phrase from the speech of 1 July 2016 was later used to support both the "prior knowledge of the coup" and the "threat" claim.

The claim that he was "part of the coup project"

The evidence was a video cut down to under a minute; when the 4.5-minute original of the speech was published, most of those who had shared it corrected their view.

Unfounded

The "he knew about the coup in advance" claim

A political assessment made on 1 July 2016 was presented as though it had been made one day before the coup; yet the same observation had been voiced since 10 February 2016.

Unfounded

The "He Knew About the Coup in Advance" Claim: How the Date of the Speech Was Changed

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.

Unfounded

Was the Phrase "His Pen Has Been Broken" an Insult to the President?

The sentence that was cut out was not a wish but a warning describing what others were doing. The chief inspector of the Directorate General of Foundations wrote that it contained no insult, and on 10 January 2019 the court returned an acquittal.

Unfounded

The claim that the speeches complained of constituted an offence

Following the complaints of the summer of 2016 the original recordings were examined; the report stated that nothing constituting an offence had been found in the video recording, and one complainant withdrew his application.

Unfounded

He Knew About the Coup a Day in Advance / He Threatened Erdoğan

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.

Out of context

The claim that he was "part of the coup project"

The "he knew about the coup in advance" claim

The "He Knew About the Coup in Advance" Claim: How the Date of the Speech Was Changed

Was the Phrase "His Pen Has Been Broken" an Insult to the President?

The claim that the speeches complained of constituted an offence

He Knew About the Coup a Day in Advance / He Threatened Erdoğan

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