Agreed, but I think we have a serious problem. There are lots of these strange thousand follower accounts. Some of them only post these types of footage. Some only focus on a Turkish audience. Then there are lots of smaller accounts who use this footage in replies to international audiences. Usually PKK supporters, but sometimes westerners. Then it becomes an issue.
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And if I was more into x-files, I would begin to think it's coordinated sometimes.
It is in result of the lack of discipline and a wrong motivation. By sharing these images they think that they are doing a moral damage to the terrorists and fulfilling some kind of revenge, but they miss the moment where this footage is used against themselves. I know very well how these small pages operate and I also saw many times how personnel or people related to the personnel in question asks the pages to remove the content, because they are going to face disciplinary charges.
I think this is in result of the weak propaganda capability of our Ministry of National Defence and the Armed Forces as a whole. The personnel feels the gap of propaganda and tries to fill it by themselves. Looking at other armed forces in NATO I rarely see such kind of showoff by soldiers of any armed forces.
First of all the proper motivation should be cultivated to be a member in the armed forces. People with complexes, fulfilling their need for a power status should not be tolerated in the armed forces and proper warrior culture must be established based on discipline and patriotism. Every unit should do it within themselves by forming their unit culture and unique environment. Good example in TSK are the Air Forces.
Second, TSK with cooperation of other decision taking authorities must ensure that OPSEC and PERSEC violations are strictly punished in the harshest ways so the personnel would think twice before sharing sensitive information.
Third, TSK should work on a capable and trained media team which would fill the need for propaganda, boost morale among TSK personnel and the Nation, ensure the creation of properly themed quality content in which the above qualities like the unique warrior culture of different units of the TSK, discipline and positive ideals are strongly encouraged, posts content that is demoralizing to the terrorist organization, in short doing the work of these social media pages in question, but in a safe, strong way, conveying the needed message. Next to the "Mothers are reuniting with their children" there should be "Don't f*ck with us" type of content reminding anybody who the Turkish Armed Forces are. Low quality rap, grandpas in uniforms and "misliyle" type of messages is not appealing at all to me as a young man.
For the first two TSK must work on itself alone, but in the third I am sure partner countries can help. I watched the last documentary by Azerbaijan on the capture of Hadrut. While not the best, I clearly got the message, it was informational enough, visuals were good, professionalism of the personnel and equipment showoff was good and it was a good entertainment for me to watch it. No PERSEC or OPSEC violations and believable narrative pushed in a good way. We lack much of it unfortunately as we can't represent ourselves in the best way and this is giving a birth to inferiority complexes within our personnel that are the reason for the breaching of laws so the personnel can fill the gap in him by sharing the content themselves hoping that they are going to get the recognition they crave. Knowing how our operations against various terrorist organizations and other threats went I can clearly say that our soldiers are no less than any Azerbaijani soldier and the TSK has much to be proud of and has its full right to show off.