Turkish film in anti-Semitism row

Film portraying Turkish operation to avenge Israeli raid on Mavi Marmara courts controversy.

Turkish film labeled anti-Semitic

‘Valley of the Wolves — Palestine’, the latest in a wildly popular series of Turkish action films, has been criticised as being anti-Semitic.

In it three Turkish special forces operatives shoot their way through Jerusalem and the West Bank to avenge the real-life Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara ship last May, that left nine Turks dead.

Al Jazeera’s Anita MacNaught reports from Istanbul, Turkey.

Source: Al Jazeera

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