Journalist Bircan Yıldırım released

Bircan Yıldırım, who was detained due to a social media post claiming that Erdoğan and Netanyahu had reached a 2 billion dollar agreement and that 1 million Palestinians would become Turkish citizens, has been released.

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Social media publisher and journalist Bircan Yıldırım had brought up the claim in a post last week that President Erdoğan and Netanyahu had reached an agreement and that 1 million Palestinians would become Turkish citizens.

The Presidential Communications Directorate's Center for Combating Disinformation denied the claim in question, and Yıldırım was detained on charges of 'publicly disseminating misleading information.'

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The news of her release was announced via Bircan Yıldırım's account on the X platform. The post stated, "Hello everyone, our Editor-in-Chief Bircan Yıldırım has been released."