Turkish Film Could Further Strain Ties with Israel

ANKARA, Turkey (AP)—Cinemas across Turkey are showing a trailer for an upcoming Turkish action movie based on a true event: the Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound, blockade-busting flotilla that killed nine activists in May.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6QQHPHdYCM

The movie, “Valley of the Wolves—Palestine,” is a spinoff from the controversial but popular Turkish TV drama series “Valley of the Wolves,” and tells the story of a nationalist undercover agent who avenges the deaths of the eight Turks and one Turkish-American in the raid.

The movie, 'Valley of the Wolves—Palestine,' is a spinoff from the controversial but popular Turkish TV drama series 'Valley of the Wolves.'

The TV series, and a similar one, “Separation,” caused a diplomatic row between Turkey and Israel, and the movie, which opens Jan. 28, could too.

The trailer, with English-language subtitles, is being shown on the film’s website: http://www.kurtlarvadisifilistin.com/indexeng.html.

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6 Comments

  1. Ah yes, another film in which the Turks – the poor darlings – are always the victims and in which Turks must therefore go kill off other people.

    Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Cypriots, Kurds, Alevis, and now Jews and Israelis are always victimizing the Turks, you see? 

    That’s why Turks have to go out and kill them.   Turks don’t enjoy genocide, you see.  They only do it when you get them angry.  So don’t get them angry, and everything will be OK.

    And now the EU and America are victimizing Turkey too!  Gosh, when will this injustice end?

    Yes, when will the world realize that Turkey is the freest, most tolerant, and most benevolent country in the history of mankind? 

    And it’s a rising power.  Did you know that?  Yes, Turkey’s GNP is # 1 in the world now. 
    And it does not need any more IMF loans.  Not now, anyway.  But if someone victimizes Turks again, who knows?  Maybe the Turks will have to kill the IMF.  Just don’t get Turks angry, ya know?

    And Turkey has “zero problems” with its neighbors.  Yup, every other country in the world has at least 10 problems with its neighbors, but Turkey has zero because, well, Turkey is superior to everyone.  Turkey’s problems with its neighbors are never Turkey’s fault, of course.

    And Turkey has just established an embassy in Booboostan (what, you never heard of Booboostan?), and Turkey expects that annual trade with Booboostan will soon exceed 500 trillion billion US dollars.

    Turkey, #1 country in the solar system.  Nice people too.

  2. I like your thinking, and all true, i think it is that they are the chosen people and the lands that turkey is on probably was promised to them By God. afterall he would not have made up the word Turkishness if they weren’t such nice people. A #1.

  3. To think that Turkey wants to join the EU! Sorry guys but we don’t take too kindly to governments allowing this kind of incitement going unregulated on their airwaves. Maybe it’s time they also came to terms with what they did to the Armenians … and NOT lock up anyone who questions the “official” story. Oh, and holding back from sending “activists” into Gaza in clear breach of another soveriegn nation’s wishes might also be an idea.
    As my mama said – you want to be treated like a grown up … start ACTING like a grownup!

  4. Hye, turkey’s leaders very obviously… PLOYS, its on again/off again actions – endless..
    -committing Genocides to eliminate peoples – their denials/lies – but turkey for turks
    -(I’ve often wondered who named them ‘turkey’ – which they certainly replicate mentally)
    -invited/attended the President Wilson home event – hence recalling that the turk been
    effecting the destructon of this USA citizens’ memorial to a fine, highly educated leader in order to get back at Wilson, obviously,  for all his efforts for Armenians – including the most legitimate (Armenian signed) Sevres treaty (which of course, the mighty turk -denying the Turkish Genocide of the Armenian nation, too, refuses to acknowledge (and since then is cautious as its policy is not to sign any treaty – since)!  It took turks nearly a century to get back at our exemplary presidential figure of the United States of America… and this ‘project’ includes even some Americans in the service of the turks… For money is all that is needed – to accomplish ‘such endeavors’ – which turks use in all ‘such endeavors’… as their money speaks alll languages – volumes to those who know how to gain the turks ‘influence/money’ to advance the turks efforts to enter all realms – including attempting to pay to have the President Woodrow Wilson memorials – the honest endeavor of the ciitzens of the USA – which means naught to the turk… just another act of inhumanity, as the mosque in New York City… what is one more – or less… these are samples of the turk policies today for our world… as if the turks are due and deserving from all the ‘civlized’ nations – but for what?  GENOCIDES!
    which is the most prominent ‘in your face’ to the civilized nations of the world which a
    turkey shares with the world – today actually dares all nations – TRY AND STOP TURKS
    as turks continue their use of Genocides (fomrerly called massacres) to reach the goals of the turks…
    Manooshag
    P.S.
    -today, turkey aims its ‘arrows’ at the Jews (recently very close to Jews) but now,
    these turk actions appear to create a group of nations who together will form group to combine together against Jews – yet tomorrrow, the turk may reunite with Jews – their usual turk ‘foreign relations’ – on again/off again.  Again, Jews??

  5. Dave, as a Turkish person, I think you are right. We don’t have the habit of self-criticism. But I think Turks learned this from Americans. If you look at Hollywood movies, Americans are always good guys, victims and a Rambo should go and kill the terrorists.

  6. Actually, seems like a very well made film. A far cry for these types of earlier Turkish films: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AEZJPS4SB4&feature=related LOL
     
    I even like the film’s overall message. Just because we consider Turks our enemies it does not mean that their growing hatred of Israel is not warranted. Having said that, one must be a total fool to think that Jews will stop supporting Turks against Armenians. What Jews and Turks have is an internal brotherly problem. When it comes to Armenians, however, organized Jewry will always side against Armenians.

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