Turkey’s info op against Saudi Arabia is masterful.
10 A powerful (but vague) opening gambit: “JK murdered in Saudi consulate”
20 🇸🇦 is caught off guard, reacts clumsily
30 🇹🇷 allows time for outrage & jeers
40 Then riposte! More details, new evidence. Touché
50 GOTO 20

Turkey, no bastion for dissidents or freedom of the press, looks moral and good. Saudi can’t catch a break, they’re totally out maneuvered and out classed. I don’t know what Turkey’s end game is, but they’re definitely winning. What they hope to win, I have no idea.

In an era where almost all press coverage is in someway about Trump, and nothing lasts longer than a day in news cycle, Turkey has made one horrific event stay front and center for almost 3 weeks. That is amazing.

DPRK manipulated sex workers into murdering a VIP with nerve gas in an airport, in public, on camera... and that story got less play than this.

Another interesting dimension to this info op — all the info war experts frantically churning out analysis of the tiny Saudi Twitter bot army have totally missed Turkey using the media as an information delivery channel. The BBC is a more powerful weapon than a few Twitter bots