This Image Shows a Video Game Character, Not a Turkish Attacker

26th October 2024

This Image Shows a Video Game Character, Not a Turkish Attacker

The image does not show an attacker from Turkey (X)

The Claim

CCTV footage shows attackers, likely with suicide vests, including a female attacker, Farah Karim. Reports claim the female shooter in Turkey has been identified as Farah Karim.

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CCTV footage shows attackers, likely with suicide vests, including a female attacker, Farah Karim. Reports claim the female shooter in Turkey has been identified as Farah Karim.

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Misbar’s Analysis

Misbar’s team found that the claim is fake. After conducting a reverse image search, we found that the circulating image does not show an attacker from Turkey.

The Photo Shows Fictional Character from ‘Call of Duty’

The photo depicts a fictional character called Farah Karim from the Call of Duty video game series.

Activision launched the military video game series and media property Call of Duty in 2003. Infinity Ward created the games initially, followed by Treyarch and Sledgehammer Games.

Since Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's 2009 release, the video game franchise has been the best-selling video game in the United States for 15 years running, according to data from the Circana Retail Tracking Service. The game has been a yearly blockbuster since 2003.

Every character in the game has a biography, a personality, connections, and a life in prison.One of the game's most well-liked characters is Farah Karim, the resistance leader who debuted in Modern Warfare (2019).

Deadly Attack on Aerospace Company in Ankara

On October 23, two attackers killed five people and injured twenty-two others at the Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters, which is located some 40km (25 miles) outside the capital.

Two assailants- a man and a woman- were killed in the attack, according to Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya, while two injured people remain in critical condition.

The shooters were identified as PKK members Ali Orek and Mine Sevjin Alcicek , according to Yerlikaya.

After accusing the PKK of carrying out an attack in Ankara, the Turkish government stated that on October 24, its military had targeted locations in Iraq and Syria connected to the Kurdish militant group.

The Turkish government said that 59 people it referred to as "terrorists" had been killed in the strikes since Wednesday. Twelve civilians were killed in Syria's north and east, according to a Kurdish-led group.

On Thursday morning, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) claimed that Turkey had killed 12 civilians in a new wave of attacks that included civilian gatherings.

Turkish president Erdogan said on x “Our nation should know that the dirty hands reaching out to Turkey will definitely be broken; no structure, no terrorist organization, no evil center targeting our security will be able to achieve their goals.”