Fake News Fairies Whisk Little Bana Out of Aleppo into the Arms of Erdogan!

You gotta admit the wily Erdogan knows a good photo-op when he sees one.

If nothing else, this story proves that the roads from “rebel held” areas of Syria to the capital of Turkey remain wide open, in spite of the fact that Turkey has allegedly joined the fight against Daesh. How else to explain the fact that Bana was only evacuated out of Aleppo two days ago, on a Syrian government bus, and transferred to rebel held territory, and finds herself on The Sultan’s lap in Ankara a mere 24 hours later?

That’s truly amazing!

But in annals of the wily Erdogan’s amazing adventures, it’s par for the course. This is the guy who heads the second largest military in NATO but is conniving with Bad Vlad in all sorts of nefarious goings on in the neighbourhood. He’s fighting ISIS but fighting the Kurds even harder, even though it’s universally acknowledged that the Kurds are fighting ISIS harder than anybody. The guy who embodies the shared values of NATO even while wreaking havoc on his Kurdish population, side-lining democracy in his own country, and jailing more journalists than any despot in the world…

Sometimes it’s hard to figure out where the truthiness ends and the fake news begins, isn’t it?