A TikTok account named "mtrks25" has published a video claiming that Prime Minister Albin Kurti met with the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The video also showed footage from this meeting and continued the claim, showing that Turkey would send 10 military troops to aid Kosovo, in the face of threats from Serbian armed groups. Hibrid.info has verified the claim and refuted what is said in it.
Link to the video material published by the "mtrks25" account on TikTok:
After researching using search engines, it has been confirmed that the image shown of the meeting between Kurti and Erdogan was taken from Prime Minister Kurti's visit in February last year to Ankara, where he was received by the Turkish president (see here).
For the same meeting, hibrid.info has also found reports from several Albanian-language media outlets in our country (see here, here and here).
Meanwhile, a statement published by the "Prime Minister's Office" (May 31, 2023), found by hibrid.info, shows the last official communication between these two leaders, via a telephone conversation (see here).
Regarding the sending of troops to Kosovo, after research by hibrid.info, it was understood that Turkey had sent 700 additional troops in June of last year (here), which after the end of their mission in September, had left Kosovo (see here).
Both of these news items have been confirmed in official sources of information, from the Turkish Government's Department of Defense (see here and here).
Based on additional research by hibrid.info, it has been learned that the last two countries to send additional troops to Kosovo, in October of last year, are Great Britain (200 troops) and Romania (130 troops), as part of the NATO mission, which is the institution responsible for security in Kosovo (see here and here).
The decision to send these additional forces was made after the September 24 armed attack on the Kosovo Police.
Analyze:
A TikTok account has published a video claiming that Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met. The claim further states that after this meeting, Turkey will send 10 additional military troops to assist Kosovo.
Hibrid.info has verified that the last meeting of these two leaders took place in February 2023, from where the image published in the video material was taken. Meanwhile, the last announcements about sending additional troops to Kosovo by NATO were found in October last year, after the armed attack on the Kosovo Police in the north of the country.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this content as "Fake News".
Reasoning:
The "Fake News" rating is given to media reports that are entirely the product of a medium that itself contains factually incorrect claims or information.
Content that is considered fake news can be reliably determined to have been created and distributed with the intent to misinform the public, i.e., to present a claim that is completely false as fact.