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The Turkish government said it “fully respects international law”, adding that the UN’s February 2024 report provided “no substantiating evidence” for its “unfounded allegations”.

Rather, their standard of proof was “reasonable grounds,” and where they couldn’t directly substantiate allegations themselves, they looked for reasonable grounds to believe they were true.

The ASA said the health benefit and cost savings claims made in the ad could not be substantiated.

It went on to warn him that there was “a risk that these sources will have provided Panorama with documents that will enable them to substantiate these allegations”.

“Simply ignoring substantiated incidents of misconduct is truly untenable and indefensible.”