



{"id":29383,"date":"2021-08-27T21:26:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T21:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/?p=29383"},"modified":"2021-09-04T21:35:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T21:35:51","slug":"the-discovered-turkish-spy-was-a-vlogger-traveler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/verified\/2021\/08\/27\/29383\/","title":{"rendered":"The Discovered Turkish \u201cSpy\u201d Was A Vlogger-Traveler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pastark news agency, referring to its own sources, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pastark.am\/sharqayin-qaghaqacin-bacahaytel-e-thurq-hetakhuyzi-orin-ostikanuthyuny-kalanavorel-e\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that the police had recently arrested a Turkish spy in the Vayots Dzor region. It was mentioned that the &#8220;spy&#8221; was not discovered by the police, but by an ordinary citizen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;The enemy spy entered the fast-food point to eat. He spoke pure Armenian. Then also in Russian. When the employees asked where he was from, he answered that he was from Persia. However, one of the citizens had doubts about the accent of the stranger speaking Russian, which is not typical for Persians,&#8221; the website wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was also reported that he tried to escape, but was found not far from the food point by the RA police and arrested.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pastark also attached a photo, which began to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hrayr.kostanyan\/posts\/4205406706209143\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">spread<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on social <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/203386388107276\/posts\/252587973187117\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">networks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as evidence of a spy.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The man in the picture is a Turkish vlogger<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The man in the picture is Turkish traveler, vlogger Arghun Konuk, who was in Armenia in the spring. The shot was taken from his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=reFj7nY9wmQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">vlog<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> published on his YouTube channel, which he shot after his visit to Armenia. We see in the blog that Arghun Konuk does not shy away from saying that he is a Turkish citizen while filming. The latter is accompanied by his friend Sona, who is a citizen of Armenia. According to Arghun, this is his second visit to Armenia\u2024 The first was in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29300 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/turkish-blogger1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1284\" height=\"813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/turkish-blogger1.png 1284w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/turkish-blogger1-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/turkish-blogger1-1024x648.png 1024w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/turkish-blogger1-768x486.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1284px) 100vw, 1284px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another photo was spread as evidence that a Turkish spy had been found in the area of Vayots Dzor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29302 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/turkish-blogger2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1626\" height=\"651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/turkish-blogger2.png 1626w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/turkish-blogger2-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/turkish-blogger2-1024x410.png 1024w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/turkish-blogger2-768x307.png 768w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/turkish-blogger2-1536x615.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1626px) 100vw, 1626px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This picture shows a Turkish citizen found by Russian border guards in Armenia in 2018, who had photos and video files of engineering buildings on the Armenian-Turkish border. This was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/armeniasputnik.am\/armenia\/20180802\/13613494\/armenia-turkia-sahmanaxaxt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by the press service of the Russian FSS Border Guard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29304\" src=\"http:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/turkish-blogger3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/turkish-blogger3.png 721w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/turkish-blogger3-300x226.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The reaction of the RA Police<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In order to find out whether the Police found a Turkish spy in the Vayots Dzor region or in another part of Armenia, we conducted an inquiry, asking to mention whether such a case had been registered during the last month. The police informed in writing that they did not have such information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Summing up, the photos of the Turkish youth spread on social networks do not prove that a Turkish spy was found in Vayots Dzor. One of those photos is a shot of a Turkish vlogger from his visit to Armenia in May, the other was taken in 2018 when the Russian border guards found a Turkish citizen in the territory of Armenia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><b>Ophelia Simonyan<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastark news agency, referring to its own sources, wrote that the police had recently arrested a Turkish spy in the Vayots Dzor region. It was mentioned that the &#8220;spy&#8221; was not discovered by the police, but by an ordinary citizen. &#8220;The enemy spy entered the fast-food point to eat. He spoke pure Armenian. 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