December 04, 2015•Update: December 07, 2015
BAKU, Azerbaijan
Russia has activated its Cold War era propaganda system "Pravda news" against Turkey as it did during the Ukrainian crisis in accordance with its political interests.
Moscow has been using "Pravda news" propaganda against Turkey since it shot down a Russian SU-24 bomber jet because of Turkish airspace violation despite repeated warnings on Nov. 24.
However, several news items run by Russian outlets have been proven to be completely wrong. For example, the Russian Sputnik News Agency claimed recently that France's Permanent Representative to NATO, Jean-Baptiste Mattei, said that "Turkey axes operations against Daesh"; however, Mattei himself clarified that this Sputnik story was a "lie".
Also, Russian media alleged that there was a picture of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's son Bilal Erdogan with Daesh members. However, the picture which showed people with beards sitting alongside Bilal Erdogan were in fact the "Kamber brothers", who are only owners of a restaurant in Istanbul.
Moreover, many Russian commanders claimed that the terrorist organization Daesh was selling oil via Turkey and also claimed to show routes taken for such oil shipments on maps; however, it was found that the claimed routes were in fact under the control of the Russian government-backed Bashar al-Assad regime and the PYD, the terrorist PKK organization’s Syrian affiliate.
Also, former staff of Russian RIA Novosti agency and propagandist expert Vasily Gatov said: "Russian state televisions are now applying the tricks for Syria as they do in Ukraine"
Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, Andrew Wilson emphasized that “Pravda journalism” had only one message even though it changed at times.
"Pravda journalism's only message is to support Russia's attitude in Ukraine and Syria, and cause confusion abroad," Wilson says.
After the formation of Soviet Union, the newspapers were described as "propaganda for people and for agitation". The Soviet media - built on this tradition - was used as the most effective weapon in political, economical, cultural and ideological aspects to make propaganda in the Cold War era.
During the Union term, Russians directed the people the way they wanted, reflecting "the truths" in accordance with the government's interests and kept communism alive via Pravda newspaper, which used to be the official media organ of Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
