Remember "Valley of the Wolves," the 2006 Turkish movie blockbuster about the American invasion of Iraq that depicted US soldiers as brutish, callous warriors who gun down unarmed Iraqi women and children?
The film was widely denounced in the US as anti-American. A Wall Street Journal editorial condemned the movie as "a cross between 'American Psycho' in uniform and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion."
Now Turkey is back with a new TV show that is drawing similar ire from Israel.
Israeli leaders are publicly denouncing "Farewell," a Turkish TV series that depicts Israeli soldiers as brutish, callous warriors who gun down unarmed Palestinian women and children.
The clip below begins with Palestinian stone throwers facing off against Israeli soldiers. Soon some Palestinians pick up guns and fire on the Israeli soldiers. Soon thereafter, an Israeli soldier on patrol blithely shoots and kills a smiling young Palestinian girl.
The series is airing at a time of increased tensions between Israel and Turkey. Turkey recently barred Israel from taking part in recent NATO war games, citing public anger towards Israel.
(In February, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan famously walked out of a Davos panel he was sharing with Israeli President Shimon Peres, to protest Israel's winter military offensive in Gaza.)
At the same time, Turkey and neighboring Syria are working to improve their relations.
(Turkey also led a dormant effort to mediate peace talks between Syria and Israel.)
Time Magazine suggests that the political maneuvering won't severely damage relations between Israel and Turkey.
"Pragmatism is still likely to keep the crisis in check," Time concludes. "Israel is involved in two major defense projects in Turkey that are worth more than $1 billion, and the prickly issue of Iran's nuclear program looms larger than anything else in the region. But the latest dispute signals that it is no longer business as usual between the two erstwhile friends."
What can you expect from an Islamic nation?
Posted by: guideman | October 15, 2009 at 07:03 AM
I suggest someone remake the film with pretty much the same plot, but put the soldiers in Ottoman uniforms, and call the victims Armenians. Then see how much the Turks like it.
Posted by: Lloyd S. | October 15, 2009 at 09:28 AM
Re: The end of Jewish terrorism, by Michael Moore, coming to a theatre nearby.
Sorry Pals, but you are 'personna non-grata, the world over, and this is just the beginning of BDS.
By the time you ZioNazi's pay 100 years of reparations to the Jewish savaged Palestinians much as the Jew's Holocaust Industries, Inc., has continued to do in Germany, you Jews will not be able to afford buying back even your old 'hand-me-down' F-4's you sold to Turkey in the 1990's.
TheAZCowBoy
Tombstone, AZ.
'Kill 'em all Hezbollah - Let their G-d sort the murderous Jewish rats out.'
Posted by: TheAZCowBoy, Tombstone, AZ. | October 17, 2009 at 05:13 PM
AZCowboy? Shouldn't it say ASSCowboy?
Whats the matter, pencil penis, did a Jewish girl once dump you for a real man?
Posted by: steve0 | November 03, 2009 at 03:39 PM