Video games these days have progressed in terms of graphics to the point where they can pass off as being realistic if you aren’t watching very closely, or if you don’t know what it is that you’re watching. This has resulted in many news stations using footage from video games and proclaiming them as actual military footage.
That being said it seems that over in Turkey, a local TV news reporter mistakenly thought that a notebook she was holding contained secret military codes, when in reality what she had in her hands was a notebook full of cheat codes for Rockstar’s GTA 4 game, the name of which you can clearly see written on the page.
According to a rough translation of what the reporter said, “This is how they communicate in secrets. Even though it says ‘cheats,’ health and gun, health and armor, weather, these were the things they used in the coup.” We suppose to be fair unless you play the game or are familiar with the franchise, it could just as easily be mistaken for anything else but cheat codes, although secret military codes do seem a bit like a reach.
The report was following the failed military coup in Turkey where the reporter was sharing how she thought that the military was trying to communicate with each other in secret.
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