TURKISH MOVIE SPARKS ISRAELI PROTEST….PLEASE SEE NOTE
A POX ON THOSE ISRAELI “FILMAKERS” AND WRITERS WHO CONTRIBUTE TO THIS ANTI-SEMITIC TSUNAMI WITH THEIR OWN TREASONOUS CRITICISM OF ISRAEL…..RSK
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Turkish movie sparks Israeli fury
ANKARA (AFP) – The scriptwriter of a Turkish television series that sparked a diplomatic row with Israel said his team is working on a movie to show more alleged Israeli “crimes against humanity”, in remarks published Saturday.
The movie, to be released in the second half of this year, will focus on Palestinian suffering in the Gaza Strip and “depict Israel as it is — with bloody hands, merciless… flouting all human values,” Bahadir Ozdener told the Vatan newspaper.
“What we do is fiction… But what about what they do, their crimes against humanity? They are real,” he claimed.
Ozdener is the scriptwriter of “Valley of the Wolves”, a long-running television series about the adventures of a Turkish secret agent which took Turkish viewers by storm but is widely criticised for being chauvinistic and glamorising violence.
In the episode that angered Israel, the protagonist storms an Israeli diplomatic mission to rescue a Turkish boy kidnapped by the intelligence agency Mossad, with one scene showing blood splaying over the Star of David as he kills an Israeli agent.
Israel slammed the show for depicting “Israel and Jews as baby-snatchers and war criminals,” but Ozdener expressed no remorse.
“It is Israel who must show remorse…. If they cannot see themselves in the mirror, we know how to hold the mirror to their face,” he said.
A diplomatic storm broke Monday when Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon summoned Turkey’s ambassador, Oguz Celikkol, to protest the series, giving him a public dressing down.
As the unexpecting Celikkol smiled, Ayalon turned to reporters and told them in Hebrew to pay attention that the envoy was made to sit on a low couch and that the Turkish flag was removed from their table.
Bowing to pressure from a furious Ankara, Ayalon sent a letter of apology to the ambassador on Wednesday, cooling the row that had threatened to plunge the two already estranged allies into a serious crisis.
Celikkol returned to Turkey Saturday for preparations ahead of a visit by Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak, planned for Sunday before the row erupted.
He described Monday’s incident as one “that will go down in the books of diplomatic history,” the Anatolia news agency reported.
The once-flourishing Turkish-Israeli ties took a sharp downturn last year when Israel’s devastating war on Gaza prompted an unprecedented barrage of criticism from the Islamist-rooted government in Ankara.
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