Fuat Avni

Fuat Avni
Occupation Microblogger
Years active 2014-
Known for Claims about Turkey politics on Twitter

Fuat Avni, is an anonymous twitter phenomenon, mostly known with anti-Justice and Development Party leaks and tweets. Its name "Fuat" is a Turkish male given name, but its real gender is unknown. It tweeted its first tweet on 18 April 2014,[1] as of May 2016 it has more than 2 million followers.[2]

Contents of its claims

It claims undisclosed government talks, 2013 corruption scandal, some irregularities during elections, secret operations with the government and Cemaat. He generally refers Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as BB (Turkish for PM), Tiran (tyrant), Başçalan (a pun with PM, meaning Prime Thief), Yezid (Yazid I, second Umayyad Caliph known as tyrant for some scholars), Faşist (fascist). He uses his iconic "Korkma, titre" (Don't be afraid, shake) occasionally.

Calims on its identity

As of May 2016, it is unknown who it is or they are. Different people occasionally claimed to be him, however none of these claims got proved.[3][4]

Realized claims

Some of his claims had been realized a few days or week before.

Claim date Claims Tweet State
8 September 2015 Seizing Kaynak Holding https://twitter.com/fuatavni_f/status/641168496559304704 Kaynak Holding seized on 18 November 2015.
28 August 2015 Seizing İpek Holding and operations on Doğan Holding https://twitter.com/fuatavni_f/status/637320578484072448 Koza İpek Holding seized on 27–28 October 2015.
24 July 2015 Operations on education facilities that has close tie with Gülen movement https://twitter.com/fuatavni_f/status/624668344268910592 Occured.
19 April 2016 Replacing Davutoğlu as Prime Minister https://twitter.com/fuatavni_f/status/722517760744538112 PM Davutoğlu announced his retreat on Prime Ministry on 5 May 2016

Accounts

Due to legal actions, he changed his account two times.[5]

Date Account
18 February 2014 – 5 August 2014 (active) @fuatavni
5 August 2014 – 21 January 2015 @fuatavnifuat
21 January 2015–today (active) @fuatavni_f

See also

Pelican files

References

  1. ↑ İlk tweetinin ekran görüntüsü
  2. ↑ "Fuat Avni'nin Twitter hesabı". 5 Aralık 2015 tarihinde kaynağından arşivlendi. http://web.archive.org/web/20151205193835/https://twitter.com/fuatavni_f. 
  3. ↑ Bülent Arınç'a sordu: @fuatavni siz misiniz?
  4. ↑ MİT'in 'Fuat Avni' dediği Emre Uslu'dan salvolar
  5. ↑ Fuat Avni, Emre Uslu mu?
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