The Chinese Consulate General was criticized by netizens for publicizing that a Chinese company had built a bridge connecting Turkey to the Dardanelles Strait.
On the 13th (local time), the Consulate General of the Chinese Embassy in Northern Ireland, Mayfang Zhang, posted an 11-second video of the ‘Canakkale 1915 Bridge’ on Twitter, saying, “The bridge built by China in Turkiye has withstood the earthquake.” Posted. He left ‘#China Tech’ as a hashtag at the end of the post.
But this was false information. The bridge was built by Korean construction companies.
The Canakkale Bridge was opened on March 18, 2022 after Daelim Industrial (now DL E&C) and SK E&C (now SK Eco Plant) jointly won the Canakkale Bridge project. The length of the bridge is 4.6 km, recognized by Guinness as the longest bridge in the world.
A post posted by the Consulate General of the Chinese Embassy in Northern Ireland, Meifang Zhang. Meifang Zhang twitter captureCurrently, the article written by the Chinese consul general has been deleted, and the official Twitter account of the Chinese Embassy in France also shared the article, but deleted it after the related facts became known.
At the time, the Chinese embassy in France wrote in French, “The bridge built in Turkiye by China withstood the earthquake,” and shared a related video.
The Canakkale Bridge is more than 1,000km away from the epicenter of the earthquake, so it is an area without any damage from the earthquake. For this reason, it is evaluated that the expression that the Canakkale Bridge ‘survived the earthquake’ was somewhat exaggerated.
Turkiye netizens captured the post before it was deleted and is sharing it on social media. In related posts, comments such as “What are you talking about when it’s a bridge built by Korea?”, “Should I have said that since it’s really far away?” did.
Source: Donga
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