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  • 2022-11-15 (xsd:date)
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  • Old video resurfaces in misleading context following Istanbul blast in November 2022 (en)
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  • Social media posts with hundreds of thousands of views have reshared an old blast video in a misleading context, claiming the footage shows a deadly bomb attack in a shopping avenue in Turkey in November 2022. The clip, however, shows a suicide bombing that targeted the same avenue in Istanbul in March 2016. We strongly condemn the suicide bombing in Turkey , reads an Urdu-language Twitter post shared on November 13, 2022. Those who take innocent lives are enemies of Islam and humanity. Heartfelt regret over the precious and innocent lives lost. The 23-second clip -- viewed more than 80,000 times with the misleading claim -- shows a CCTV recording of people walking in a street shortly before an explosion. Screenshot of the misleading post. Taken on November 15, 2022. The video resurfaced online hours after a bomb exploded in Istiklal Avenue, a popular thoroughfare in Istanbul home to smart boutiques and European consulates. Turkey has accused a Syrian woman of planting the bomb that killed six people and wounded 80 others, blaming the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party of carrying out the attack, AFP reported . The same footage was viewed more than 10,000 times on Facebook and Twitter in similar posts in Arabic , Persian and Urdu . Pakistan's ARY News also used the clip in a report about the bombing that has been viewed more than 300,000 times on Facebook. However, the video is old. 2016 suicide bombing A reverse search of the video's keyframes on Russian search engine Yandex found a longer version of the video published here on Twitter by Turkey's Evrensel Daily on March 19, 2016. #Taksim clearer images emerged of the suicide bomb attack on Istiklal Avenue , the Turkish-language tweet reads. Taksim refers to a popular square in Istanbul where Istiklal and other avenues converge. Below is a screenshot comparison of the video in the misleading posts (left) with the one from Evrensel (right): Screenshot comparison On March 19, 2016, four foreigners were killed in a suicide attack in Istiklal by a bomber who authorities described as a Turkish jihadist with ties to the Islamic State group, AFP reported . Scenes in the video correspond to Google Street View imagery below of Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul: Versions of the video were also published in March 2016 by the Russian state video agency Ruptly here and British newspaper The Daily Express here . AFP previously debunked Arabic-language posts that have misleadingly shared the video here . (en)
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