Placards backing Turkey's Afrin operation, European Turkish Democrats rally, Voice of America still (London, 24 January 2018)
Close shot of demonstrators holding Turkish flags and printed placards. Two navy placards read 'Turkeys legitimate right to self defence'; red placards carry longer lines of white text, one beginning 'is home to ... half million ... of which 370 ... and are Kurds' and another ending 'against terrorism'. The tells are a legal-moral slogan used in place of a stated case and national flags used as the rally's visual anchor.
Propaganda techniques used in this sign or banner
- Date
- January 24, 2018
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- European Turkish Democrats (UK-based Turkish diaspora group); still from Voice of America Turkish video
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Signs and banners
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- May Government
- Leader
- Theresa May
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Race and ethnicity
- Event
- Syrian Civil War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Voice of America Turkish), retrieved October 12, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (US government work, Voice of America), per Commons file page
Voice of America, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked
[illegible] is home to [illegible] half million [illegible] s of which 370 [illegible] and are Kurds [illegible] should stand with Turkey and the innocent civilians of the [illegible] against terrorism Turkeys legitimate right to self defence Turkeys legitimate right to self defence [logo:] VOA www.amerikaninsesi.com
Placards are partly cropped or covered by other placards; only the legible portions are given. 'Turkeys' is printed without an apostrophe.
