The effects of the earthquake in the Southeast Anatolia region continue. Although we are on the sixth day of the disaster, many problems arise as efforts continue to save those who were under the rubble. Unfortunately, one of the problems in question is disinformation. There is a lot of false information circulating about the earthquake zone and what happened there. Finally, MasterChef champion Uğur Kardaş, who was found to have caused some of this information to spread, was arrested. Here are the details…
Uğur Kardaş, the champion of MasterChef 2018, was arrested for disinformation!
Uğur Kardaş, the champion of the MasterChef competition in 2018, made some remarkable claims. According to the news of Sabah Newspaper, Kardaş said, “They pull a corpse from the wreckage and put it aside. An Afghan person comes and cuts off his arm and steals the gold” on social media, and he was taken into custody after the allegations were unfounded.
After the incident was revealed to be disinformation, the authorities took action. Kardaş was arrested by the decision of the Kahta Criminal Judgeship of Peace on the charge of “publicly spreading misleading information to the public”. In his famous statement, “I have not witnessed an incident where an Afghan national took gold by cutting off the arms of the corpses. However, such allegations were spoken in the city.“ he defended himself.
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Police also made a statement about Kardaş:
“The suspect named Mustafa Uğur Kardaş, who was found to have made provocative posts about the work done in the earthquake in the social media, was caught at Adıyaman Airport. In summary, in the interview;
While he was working on the wreckage, he made statements from the citizens in the vicinity that he heard that the corpses unearthed from the rubble were placed on the side of the road, that the arms of a few people were cut off and the gold found on them was taken, that the thieves were from Afghanistan, and that he did not have any concrete evidence to prove this claim.
Unfortunately, we do not have much information about Uğur Kardaş’s fate at the moment. However, he is expected to be released in a short time and to be tried pending trial if there is any disinformation.