Turkish TV show portraying IDF soldiers as murderers sparks outrage

this is the thanx for the suport of of jew diaspora to turks .

Here is another Story. My mom's grandmother told me this herself...She survived only because she hid from Armenian gangs in the bushes. By the time she came out of bushes with few people, she went back to village to find everyone in the village has been murdered, including little kids and pregnant women. Turks reaction was, "why did Armenians stabbed us in the back and helped Russians when we need all Ottoman people to stick together?"...So, there 2 sides to each story. But Armenians has done better job selling theirs to World public opinion. If Turks were Christians, story and World reaction would be different now... Regards

My father was 5 years old when the turkish soldiers came to Harput in the town of kessirik. They told everyone to leave or they will be killed.My grandfather did not want to leave ,and the turkish soldiers took him and one of my uncle attached them against a tree and shot them,then they took my father my grandmother and my aunts and send then marching ato the desert of Syria.On the way my grandmother dyed of starvation while my aunt and my father were kidnapped by the arabs,where my aunt was forcefully married.All armenian families have a similar story.This is why armenians are scattered throughout the world ,because the Turkish government had a plan to get rid of the armenians.if it wasn t genocide it was certainly ethnic cleansing of the armenians in anatolia.

Dont be fooled ... its just antisemitism on the level of blood libel ... the can justify their intense hatred toward israel and jews by dehumanizing us ... just look at how quick people are to say this kind of TV is OKAY.... they love it ...

Next thing u know the UN will use this video as proof in its FACT FINDING mission... thats about how serious you can take the facts that they used ... huh

or on the Warszaw Ghetto of the 21st century, Gaza.

Israel did not disengage from Gaza. It just removed its illegal settlements aka internal guard houses. It left its walls and its guards around this open air prison intact. I don't call that disengagement. I call that a partial, tactical withdrawal.

"Having an Israel solider walk up, take aim, and shoot a little girl for no reason is sick." Sick, and real.They call it "confirming a kill", remember?

That kind of propaganda is called mass population progamming by media. That is how a power player with an alternate agenda attacks for long term. Three generations may be watching that and in the back of their mind it will tell them forever to fear Israel and how to hate. People are people how can it be you and I would hate so naturally... They are being programmed by governmental identities. Freedom of speach. Freedom of idea. Declaration of Human Rights since 1948. Rankoo-Karoon

What is relationship between Turkey showing the brutal face of Israel and joining the EU? What a logic is this?

Why the outrage? More than 70% of Palestinians killed in the last intifada were under the age of 17. While the Turkish sitcom is fictional, it does however depict the brutality of the happy trigger Israeli soldiers and their nonchalant attitude towards the Palestinians. Just recently, Haaretz reported a bound Palestinians being shot in the chest with a rubber bullet from a distance of 2 feet. Whatever happened to the public outrage of the 70s when the Shin Bet murdered a captured Palestinian militant after newpaper photos showed them taking him alive. Not only did Israel lose its moral compass, it also lost it soul.

What's the fuss about this TV series ?? Reality of the IDF actions in Gaza was much worse than what is depicted here, which seems very mild, when compared to the usual behaviour of our noble army, the most ethical in the world !

I have really shocked about the tv series.It's certain-Erdogan want to be a new hero of the Arabs.That's why his foreign policy is much more arabic than a Arab. -I really dont understand why we secure the Palestians more than the Arab countries??? -I was shocked second time because of the some comments.Some users behave ungreatfully and accuse the whole turkish nation.THIS IS ONLY A POLICY OF THE GOVERNTMENTS.WE ARE THE FIRST MUSLIM COUNTRY WHICH KNOW YOUR INDEPENDENCE.WE WERE THE UNIQUE COUNTRY WHICH YOU HAS EXCELLENT RELATIONS IN THE REGION.NO ONE SHOULD DESTROY THIS.(TURKS OR ISRAELI)

David, Thanks for your response... First of all, we really can use that rain here...I get tired of very dry wether with no green color around you...I actually envy you too.. Anyways, I personally know some Jewish friends in Istanbul. They are some of the most well to do there. But, that really doesn't mean much, since I don't know the specifics of your French Jews argument...You may have a good point there. I know many changes happening in Turkey. Some I support, some I don't. I am a secular person and I have always been very liberal person. I was really kind of outcast in Turkish society due to my liberal views. But, I love my homeland with her rights and wrongs. Problem is, no secular or liberal leader was competent enough to lead Turkey. That left Turkish people to vote for current government. I will just hope that, extrimist from all religions and walks of life go to hell one day... Take care

Does Neda ring a bell? May she RIP.

It is not politics, it is listining to the cries of poor people, we like peace to be a right for all people Palistnians and Israelies together, we can not not justify sending soldiers to refugee camps and kill children with the excuse that this will help in preventing suspected terrorists to kill Israilies when they grew up. Peace is the wright for all in eqality and together

The producer is right,it was not Israeli soldiers but Turkish speaking Hamas dressed as Israeli soldiers shooting Fatah women and children in Gaza.Has anyone got a problem with my story? And don't forget,kosher pigs will fly one day.

there are two wars in the history that no one should call genocide. but as i can see nobody wants to see the fact. in 1915 there was a war between turks - and russian supported armens. and had suffered more than 2 million turks and armens. also in 1945 there was another war between germany and other european countries. but has been the nation that suffered? germans, english, frenchs, romanians, hungarians, polishes, hundred thousands of them. but how many jews? 9000 maybe 10000. they were the most protected people in the middle of the war. the gas rooms, soaps and much more things are all jew lies. the history never forget the reailty that people who has been thrown away from europe in time of 2.nd world war was the first population of israil. so stop lieing and denying the facts of the history. just like the hitler was jew.

Hey Liberman, we Turks, and othe Muslims,even Arap saved Musevi people ( Jweish) from Katholiks in Spain in the fifteenth century,they lived peacfully between us in Izmir, Istanbul , Adana, Cairo, Damascus, Bagdat.At that time Musevi people were considered as equal citizens with full rights.My Israili friends, Dont listen to Liberman, he knows more about MAFIAA than he knows about Turk People

Whenever the IDF is accused of brutality their response is to deny everything and to depict themselves as the most moral army in the world. There is a massive amount of evidence that this is not so. They seem to believe that shouting lies at the top of their voice will somehow convince the rest of us. It won't....

I really think we are making a bit too much of this/goldstone/etc. crap that is being lobed at Israel. We have a ?good guy? complex, and its not good for us. We should not worry so much how we come out in turkish media or in the UN ?human rights? (right) council, which is filled to the brim with extraordinarily ?humane? countries. NO, our leaders should remember that what matters is how many rockets are landing on or near innocent children in Sderot! For too long we have accepted daily barrage of rockets on Israel for the unworthy cause of being ?good?. From our heritage: Your city's poor come first! Next time we are accused of atrocities we should calmly promise to investigate (as is demanded) and indeed investigate, as we have done. Anyone with concrete evidence and a claim of cover up (usually baseless) knows the way to BAGATZ and other legal avenues and should use it. We, as a government and as people, must stop trying to come up roses in our battles with ruthless enemies, it takes our eyes off the successes we owe our citizenry. We should always remember the moral path, always try to stay on it, and investigate/reprimand when individuals stray off it. However we should never forget that we didn't ask for these wars and that our number one priority is to win our battles, in a decisive way. You cannot fight Hamas/Jihad/etc. and not get some blood on you. The author is a libertarian, peace loving ?yefe nefesh? who has participated in pro-Palestinians demonstrations and strongly believes most Israelis/Palestinians want nothing more that a quite, descent life. However: 1) a small group of people can make very large amounts of problems (Hizi., Hamas, el-kaida, ...). 2) To the kids and adults of Sderot (etc.) it really doesn't matter what I/you/we believe/want. They just want some quite after 10 years. Palestinians can give them this quite, and Palestinians also know they will get quite in return and maybe more.

Thats what is really happening, the film is a simple example of what IDF is doing everyday, There is no comparison between Kassam dummy fireworks of limmitted effect, and the total destruction of Gazze over innoucent people,(CAST LEAD) 1400 killed majority kids , wemwn and elderly people, 16000 injured, Gazze strip still closed for even food and medicine IDF soldiers themselves started to describe how berberic the orders from leaders were. At the end Israil must choose between being part of the( HUMAN) society, or being a big LIE ,whatever the false wittnesses are, We have a Turkish proverb saying ( You cannot cover the sun with a sieve).

if you want to go way back in history,you will find lots of wrong doings. we are speaking of armenians whose children and grandchildren are still waiting for an answer , we are speaking of families in greece and cyprus who still surch for their loved ones. as for the jewish persecutions, extermination in gaz chambers , it just happened 66 years ago. and believe me these people had no guns , or missiles or stones.they were peace loving people who particapated in the progress of their countries and the world .

Israel should broadcast a show about the Armenian Genocide. Oh wait a second that might not be fair considering the Armenian Genocide actually happened and this garbage about the IDF is full of lies. Screw Turkey, if they want to buddy up with Syria and try to reestablish an Ottoman Empire throughout our region, then we should not be doing business with them. In fact, we should do our best to become allies with the Armenians.

Yaakov Sullivan takes the word of one (reportedly) IDF soldier as an indication of the events in Jenin. The total death tolls were published and, I repeat, fewer Arab civilians were killed than IDF soldiers, despite Arab claims of a "Massacre" Incidentally, only a small part of Jenin was targeted and the civilians were warned, as they were in Gaza, about the impending attacks.

As a Turkish Jew I want to say that even in the best times of Israel-Turkey relations public opinnion towards Israel and Jews were never positive. The difference was that generaly the ruling governments were aware that relations with Israel benefited the country so they tried not to worsen the relations but now the ruling Islamic party AKP is Arab lover and don't care about the consequences of worsening the relations with Israel. MB don't worry the reality is that Turks never liked us and never will. We, Turkish Jews, learned how to live with this fact. Even though Arab's backstabed Turkey many times meantime Israel helped Turkey a lot, Turkish people still call Palestinians as their brothers just because of their religious similarity. Maybe Turkey will understand that worsening the relation with Israel was a bad idea after experiencing the consequences in the foreign diplomacy but it will be too late for them.

Combined with the news about Turkey arresting potential terrorists, this sounds like they are worried about losing money from Israeli tourists. Turkey has long been a favorite spot for travellers from Israel. But they should not worry, there are lots more Arabs than Jews in the Middle East. Surely the show will attract them to visit Turkey.

Spilberg should make a movie about Armenian genocide. That movie will make people forget that gaza ever existed

1. I envy you today because it is a dreadful rainy day in NY 2. Your post was pretty objective and I generally agree. However having returned recently from a trip to Istanbul, Izmir and Milas I must say that unfortunately most Turks disagree with you these days. 3. Th eJews who came to the Ottoman land stayed very poor and uneducated until the rich French Jews helped them through the Alliance Israelite Universelles. Prosperity followed after that. 4. Israel offered peace many times with the last big opportunity by Bill Clinton accepted by Isarel but rejected by Arafat. 5. Israel disangaged from Gaza hoping to do the same from most WB but Hamas turned Gaza into a rocket launching place instead of taking the 1 billion dollar from Turkish TOBB as promised by Rifat Hisarcikoglu to build industry. Best regards Dostum.

Israeli reactions to any criticism of Israeli actions or policies however slight are often over the top. The tendency is to belittle the critics and dismiss the criticisms. Playing the anti-semitic card seems an endless pursuit. The carnage of Lebanon and Gaza far exceed any notion of justifiable retribution which the Torah might support. The policies of discrimination toward Palestinians are applied daily. They've been ongoing for almost 60 years and if anything they have intensified. Apartheid like a rose by any other name smells nonetheless. What the world expects from Israeli spokespeople is what it gets. Spin and more spin.Calling black white, calling good evil and evil good.

6) Occupying forces usually looses the war, when they start treading the local population with lots of restrictions and disrespect. It is hard to watch regular Palestanian mom, dad, kids, grandparents being subjected to humiliating check points, yelling, disrespect and subjected to denial of basic human necessities.....(food, water, fuel, medicine) lets be honest, Israel can do better in this area. If Israel take more compessionate approach to Palestenian general population, then I believe they will see better return in their investment in longer term. (Again it is unrealistic to expect Palestenian reciprication right away) 7) One last reminder....Remember, when Spaing kicked out all the Jews in 1400's and 1500's, Ottoman Empire (Turkey) took them in. Roughly 500,000 to 1 million Jews. They all prospered in Turkey under the toleratnt Ottoman Empire regime. This is a reminder for the people who accused Turkish history for not being Tolerant. Thank you for reading....Best Regards

If you are interested in slaughter why should you go that far in time and space? Show the world real genocide that was perpetrated against America?s natives. It looks like Israel and Zionists invented new type of genocide. When genocide is conducted by good natured Americans one has tribes wiped out in there entirety with nobody surviving. If they do not have enough bullets they sell contaminated blankets. Brits cleansed the whole island of Tasmania of its native population with no single person surviving. It is only as the result of Israeli genocide one sees steady increase in Palestinian population.

3) I personally don't know where this new found Turkish love for Palestenians/Arabs coming from. Arabs screwed Turks in every step of the way. They only support Turks when it serves to their own self interest. I think it has a lot to do with the current Government policies. 4) Kurdish Issue: I have to say, Turkey has not done very good job when it comes to Kurds. Why should Turkey be scared about giving Kurds more freedom. If you are more free country, you are more desirable. More restrictions you put on your people, people will be more restive. Turkey did a lot of bad things, against Kurds, and vice versa....I don't ever remember or heard Turkish soldier killing a Kurdish children at point plank. But, PKK has killed many many Kurdish kids which is well documented by International Media as well. 5) As a Turk, I do want to keep Israel as an Ally and Friend. Most Turks feels the same way. We actually have many similar customes and cultures.

You don't have to point out all the crimes done against innocent civilians every time you point out one. Don't try and divert from the issues - Israel was clearly in the wrong regarding Iman, and the fact that Captain R walked away scot free is a travesty to justice. I was saying the sequence of an innocent young girl killed in cold blood was based on precedent.

The producer/director will (or should) thank the Israeli Govt for such a huge media coverage. Before these publications the share of the TV drama was only 2 % (with a very low rating) while the most successful drama in all TV channels had around 22 % share. There are hundreds of TV channels in Turkey.

Yes, I am a Turk and I will try to be objective. 1) Armenian Genocide argument: We do not deny that many many Armenians killed during WW1 in Turkey. But, at the same time, many many Turks were killed by Armenian gangs. I know this from first hand, because my great grandmother survived those attacks and she witnessed these killings in person. No one talks about that because some how Muslim and Turkish lives worth less than Jews and Christian's lives. 2) Gaza attack: I agree that Israel was heavy handed. But, I can not understand how Palestenians think that they will use home made rockets and somehow hurt Israel with it. Palestenians should know, they will eventually be subjected to Israel's attack. By proportion, and by numbers, more Palestenian dies but, If I was a Palestenian leader (Gaza or West Bank) I would urge my people to do peacefull resistance against Israel, rather than use terrorizing stupid home made rockets on Israeli civilians. MORE TO FOLLOW...

Israel helped Turkey in the fight against PKK. Israel provided intelligence and military support as well as unmanned Heron aircraft including Israeli staff until the Turks were trained. Strop believing the false PR that is made. Israel has always been a friend of Turkey helping against PKK terrorism. My grand parents were from Kucuk (Little) Paris Milas as its famous inhabitant Madamme Murat used to call. The people of Milas, Gulluk and Bodrum are known to be progressive modern. Would not believe in false PR.

... countries Turkey denounces Israel and the IDF in this way. They should mind their own's business and remind on their behaviour against the Armenians and Kurds. I'm living in the EU but hope that this country will never join the EU.

Unlike hollywood who spreads lies about middle east

Why are the Jews so easily provoked by a bunch of primitive Antisemites? The best answer to them is a strong Israel.

Christopher Jon Bjerknes who himself is a jew, wrote more than 1200 pages of book about the relations between Ottomans, Jews and Armenians. A part of the book is freely availible on his website. Or you can listen to his audio file about it.

Charles: You are, of course, correct, there is a larger context, a cooling of relations between Israel and Turkey-just as there was between the US and Turkey over the Iraq war. But I do not think that over-reaction to this sort of thing is productive. Remember, many Israeli's were oppossed to the Gaza incursion and afterwards, some members of the IDF spoke of abuse. But threats and ratcheting up the emotions around this sort of thing is dumb-and I can not imagine any Israeli being too proud of your FM calling this a crime against humanity. Actually, the best way to deal with this sort of thing is to visit Turkey and bond with the people-it makes it harder to sterotype Israel-and once again, the people are really nice, the country is beautiful-so visiting may be the most sacrifice-free way to build peace there is. thanks Fred

Speaking in an interview with Israel Radio, the producer added that he and his colleagues loved Israel and were convinced that Israelis do not support acts of slaughter perpetrated against Palestinians. Really!! If so, why the hell would you do include such fabricated images in the movie! OOOh, to support their inner feelings probably!

More and more people are getting aware that the suffering of the Jews in the history is now replaced with the agression of the jews against palestinians. I have heard that Holocaust museum aren't attracting much people anymore like they used to be. It will become like empty churches in the near future.

"It is not so good when Israel starts to feature as the regular baddie in the movies." Don't worry about it. Jews are used to being persecuted and having people like you exaggerate and make up bad things about them -- while having you blame them for your negative views.

For Turkey it doesn't matter if Israel is mad or not. The future of Turkey is brighter than Israel. If Israel wants a piece of the cake, then it is better that they still cooperate with Turkey. Otherwise they will become isolated between enemies in the middle of a desert. And hope for handouts from the U.S.A. and the E.U. Now with the crisis, I think that U.S.A. and the E.U. will think first for themself than on Israel.

...starts where organizations such as Physicians for Human Rights Israel's case files begin... On a daily basis there is chilling evidence gathered at what the IDF is doing in the occupied territories. There is ample fodder for any TV producer to be able to work for perhaps decades of episodes long before Rachel Corrie and her infamous bulldozer death. Who wouldn't want to see a movie of the week depicting Israel's attempt at assassinating Khalid Meshaal in Jordan? Israel should deeply consider how the world really sees the little rogue country, out of control, terrorizing it's captive unwanted population. Feeble protestations about how Arab Israelis so "enjoy" their "status" notwithstanding.

I am happy that Turkey found out that friendship with Israel means nothing. Because real friends don't sell arms to PKK, don't try to topple the goverment of a democraticly elected Turkey. I hope that other countries wake up as well and and end their ties with the so-called friend Israel.

JO Hamas was found guilty also. The problem is Israel is in the same level is hamas. So if Israel is not a terrorist entity need to have a honest report done on what ever happen and how bad it was... Simple why you fighting something you will have to do!! because you cannot disprove the Goldstone fact....

Armenian story is not a genocide. The Turkish state was paying million Dollars for the jewish Lobbists in the USA for something what never happened. An Isolation from the rest of the Wolrd Comunity is not fair, see northern cyprus. You are thing it`s ok to watch a Butcher how he is murdered a lot of Turkish civil person? Why so many Armenians live out of Armenia?! In France, USA, Canada, Lebanon, Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela... If Turks would killed Armenians there will be no presense of them in this countries. Armenian people are christian and they helped French Troops to kill Turks (muslim)! If an Armenian take a weapon, he should not called a civil person. I think these Armenian was the first Terrorists of the Human History! Christian Allies against muslim Turks in the end of Ottoman Empire! Nobody is speaking how many Turks were killed in this time there and in the Balkan! There is no presence of Turks in the Balkan, today. Turks, should be proud of your Nation and History!

Actually, zoe, I have tried more than once to get Hollywood interested in making a film about the Hebrews'conquest of Canaan or the Hebrews' treatment of the ancient Midianites before the conquest. But I want the stories to be told from the viewpoint of the victims of the Hebrews' blood lust. Doesn't that sound fair to you as well?

Jethro I am with you, but you know their guilt wont let them do it, so they are digging themself deeper and deeper talking nonesense instead to make justice. Go to show is G-D justice after all

took place and ended over 80 years ago. Israeli genocide of Palestinians continues to this day. Rabid Zionists want the world to constantly remember what happened to Jews 65 years ago or 200 years ago or 2000 years ago. But they want the world (including the surviving victims) to forget what the Zionist Jews did to the Palestinians last month or last week or even earlier today. Let's hear it for a Palestinian "NEVER AGAIN!"

You're right, it's only a movie. BUT....there is a context, which right now is a diplomatic blast of cold air from Ankara but the government. If the move were an isolated incident, that's one thing. But taken in context of current events, it's rather sinister.

o me it appears that Israel's concern is that this show demonstrates too clearly the reality of the actions if Israel in Cast Lead. The Goldstone report, as well a reports from numerous independent bodies, has provided clear evidence that such things happened. All the braying by Israel's propaganda donkeys will not change the reality.

Yes, Turks are quite open and friendly for the most part, but so were the Iranians before the 1979 revolution, and look what happened there when a right-wing extremist Islamic government took over. The same process is occurring now in Turkey. This is where it begins--with media conditioning, but we see where it ends--Holocaust denial and threats to Israel's existence.

The Turkish Government is playing with fire - The American Jews on Capitol Hill have (wrongly) so far avioded castigating Turkey's Historic Massacre into legistlation, but now Turkey's vicious scalding of Israel and it's increasing Islamization will cast its position as a credible broker and voice of moderation to the periphery.

I don`t know why jews from Israel so believe in the USA, who have a Christianity Idendity! The US regime every time used Israel and Turkey to attack Arabian and Shia people in the middle East. Turkey see this now, but Israel close the eyes! Turks were muslims, too but they were not in the same ship with the extreme Militans from another countries. If Israel is critize all muslims and call them Terrorists, it is not fair and not clever. Many jews out of Israel know how important Turkey for Israel is. Turkwere against Israelian Administration, not against jewish people. That is a difference, who will be not seen by Israelian jews. Many jews around the world realize this game by the USA, so the jewish capital leave the USA. A lot of Business and money-streaming is going to Asia specially China in the future. The USA is going down, Turks & Jews from Israil will be come together again, if Israels Administration realize this. It is wrong to searching for a new enemy, specially the Turks.

ARARAT which Turkey protested. If you ask to many Armenians who post here they will say that Ararat is the truth so why protest it Also Midnight Express was banned and protested in Turkey but it was a real story. Israel in support of Turkey did not show this film. Lawrence of Arabia also was protested by Turkey and not shown.

This representation of fictional Israeli violence is a distraction, a mask to hide the violence of Turkey's genocide of Armenians.

After agreeing to permit the UN Commission to do its job in Jenin, Israel reneged on that commitment charging bias on the part of the Commission menbers. I leave you with some of the words of Israeli solder Moshe Nissim as reported in Israeli daily Yeidot Ahronot: "For 3 days I just destroyed and destroyed. The whole area, any house they fired came first. And to knock it down, I knocked down some more. They were warned by loudspeaker to get out before I came but I gave no one a chance. I didnt wait. I would just ram the house with full force. I didnt wait for them to come out....I'm sorry for not tearing down the whole camp."War crimes are war crimes and Israel is guilty and not getting away with murder this time.

Meanwhile Lieberman has gotten usefult to the Gov't: "Such a drama series, which doesn't even have the slightest link to reality and which presents Israeli soldiers as murderers of innocent children", well that would be a "possible crime against humanity". Let's take it to the Hague. If the Israelis have nothing to hide, what's the proble?

Are you aware that Israel was one of the leading lobbyists in making sure that the Armenian genocide would not be recognised as such?

Stop shooting rockets into Israel! Stop raising your children to be suicide bombers to murder Israeli women, children and old people! Stop advocating the destruction of Israel! Stop the negative propaganda against Israel! There would be no wall if the suicide nuts did not come into Israel to murder and cause chaos. There would be a viable Palestinian state today if they really wanted it and not the destruction of Israel. Imagine how the United States would react if for many years Mexico or Canada were shooting rockets into our country to terrorize the civilian population. Gaza and its leaders were warned to stop and Israel leaders at the time pleaded with them to stop the rockets. War is horrific but Hamams and the other groups decided the fate of the Gaza Strip. For all the innocent people who have been hurt by this insane violence on both sides, may G-D bless all of you. Turkey needs to do a series on the Armenian and Kurdish people.

You guys are getting carried away-this is just a TV show. I am a Jewish American. In 2006, my wife and I visited Turkey-from Istanbul to Dyarbakr and back. We found that the people were freindly and gracious. Everywhere we went, we felt comfortable. As we left, I bought a DVD at the airport-a film which translates as Valley of the Wolves. This film had been the biggest box office draw in Turkish history. It depicted the US invasion of Iraq as an anti-Muslim crusade-with a sub-plot about US soldiers dragging inocent Iraqi's to Abu Ghraib to steal their kidneys (and sending them to NYC annd London). One soldier complained that we were killing so many Iraqi's he could barely get a good harvest. I wondered at first how those people could be so nice and yet watch this-then I realized-Turks know the difference between fantasy and reality-just like us. So chill-and look at your media depictions of Arabs.

...consequences that any dunce, other than leftist ostriches like Barak, should have foreseen. This trend will increase. Israel must see the perspective of mideast players needs to maintain political power. The jews, now as israel, serve a convenient purpose. Israel, stop whining and star the paradigm shift to embrace militarism and resource independence. Gobal snactions, UN military attack (like korean war) necessitates a war plan that seizes mideast oil resources such as saudi oil fields.

I want to see turkish reaction on a Israel's film about turkish genocide of armenian in 1915.

For decades after decades Israeli and Western media spend no stone unturned in portraying Palestinians and Muslims as terrorists, and generally dangerous. Now, with inexpensive video technology and broadcast, it has become possible for everyone to play this ridiculous game. It is time BBC and CNN learned the dangers of their media. It must be checked immediately on all sides.

I've just read that the company that produced the TV drama has been innundated by requests from at least 10 channels in the Middle East to buy the rights to broadcast the drama. I am sure that the Turkish makers are very happy with the latest free publicity to their program. I personally can't wait to watch it.

Israel should show a tv show about the Armenian Genocide. At least that was an event that actually happened. Having an Israel solider walk up, take aim, and shoot a little girl for no reason is sick. It doesn't even seem to serve a purpose in the story other then to demonize the IDF.

Americans slauthered Native Americans And now they teach the world about democracy and humans rights too. So what is your point, actually? You think that God cares about what humas being do to other human beings? He enjoys the show, just like we do.

Israel and his co-friend U.S.A. toppled Saddams goverment, they also want to topple Iranian goverment. If Iran falls, then a new country would emerge, Kurdistan. If Israel really is Turkey's friend, then they should stop supporting PKK, stop trying to topple the Turkish government, stop being arrogant to the world. To much Chutzpah is unhealty for your relations with the rest of the world.

time for a holywood fim about armenian genocide and one about attila in cyprus. silvienne, are you aware about these to events. i am sure that beeing so human , you will apllaud.

Why Israelian are so angry?! They often saying, that Israel belong to Europe but don`t following their Rules. Democracy is the Headline of Propaganda, "free meaning" called in Euroean Union. The Turks don`t like the midnight Express, a contra Turkish Propaganda Movie by Oliver Stone, who have jewish roots. Who is sitting in the glass house?! Every time the western Union is throwing with mud against Turkey, now Turkey is throwing back. I was in Turkey and they are more peacefully to another Religions than another people in the world. If you have a problem, they help you without earning money. It's a Island in the capitalist western World. The Armenian Issue is not a jewish problem, i don`t understand why you decide about another things. It`s a Story for historians not for politics. The difference between Turkey and western states ist that Turkey makes History, but western Nations write History.

will these ""super and honest"" producers will ever show in a soap opera in Turkish TV a series showing how the turks killed hundreds of thousands of Armenians? no way. Lets face it. when using the word ISRAEL papers and all massive means of comunications will sell, otherwise the go bankruptcy.

the regular baddie in the movies. This happened a lot with Serbia, where there many plays on British tv in which the Serb military and politicos were the bad guys and the backdrop was of their civilian massacres, rapes, torture of prisoners etc. The thing though is that they were all based on fact. All these horrors and more had occurred repeatedly at Serbian nationalist hands, as the world now knows. There is nothing in the (reported) Turkish show that has not happened or been inflicted by the IDF (maybe firing squads?). Goldstone simply turns the latest page in a long and well-documented saga of mistreatment and civilian deaths. Israel cannot take the stance that these events don't happen, there is too much detailed evidence that they do. Nor can they take the stance that they do happen but should not be talked about, which is a non-starter in a democratic age. If the IDF is now being portrayed as the bad guys, it's very possibly because they ARE behaving like bad guys.

It's like Israel is in chains, because of the world public opinions against Israel. If they attack Palestinians. The Swedes, publicize IDF organ artikels, if IDF bombs Gaza, Turkey gets angry. If Israel builds new settlements, European Union gets mad. If Israel feels threatend by Iran, U.S.A. citizins get mad because of a new upcoming war to save Israel. But the Israeli's still not understand it. That they are the problem, and not the world.

How fickle they are. Yesterday they couldn't say enough about Turkey as a progressive ally. Now that Turkey has tried relentlessly to act as a fair broker between Israel and the palestinians to no result, and have tried to incorporate Israel into the region only to be answered with further isolation and refusal to meet its obligations, now the same country becomes a vile devil to be deried and chastised. This is how this ilk reacts in every instance with every country. Like a paranoid spouse, they are always ready to accuse the partner of cheating on them and turning to another. They never look at themselves in the mirror. They are blind to the fact that they carryi a malignant tumour.

Tell me how many movies were made about the Holocaust?And depicted the destruction of hitler on jews? Now the same thing happen on the palestinians. Be Cool!!!!!

The reported massacre in Jenin was shown to be false, with more IDF soldiers being killed than civilians, because their aim was to oust the attackers, and they were operating door to door in a hostile environment. Your accusations are false.

I would like to see the whole tv drama before I give a critic about it. If this one is the 14th part of the show. That means the 13 shows before this weren't critical about IDF?

I am sure all Israelis are aware of what news media in Europe says about the IDF. I am equally sure that no other army phones, sends down leaflet and tries to otherwise warn enemy civilians when and where it plans to attack. Admit it, you hate the IDF because it defends Jews and the only Jews you like are those who marched into the ovens without fighting back

Turkey slaughtered thousands of Kurd people!!! They tortured and killed men, women, young and old ... and they dare to accuse Israel about Palestinians? A good idea should be if they think what they do ... they have nothing to teach to Israel but they can learn democracy and tollerance!

War against a bunch of terrorists is extremely difficult and for sure no other army in the world acts in a better way that the Israeli Army. turkey should air a program showing this and not lies that never happened. If terrorists hide in civilian homes using civilians as shields what should we do? Do they choose who to hit with their daily missiles after we gave them their land? turkey is far more agressive with thouse that do not agree with their points of views and MUST NOT BE ACCEPTEDIN THE EU.

Children are being killed in both Iraq and Afghanistan by all Western Nations participating. Here are just two links involving shooting kids by Canadians. I do not see Turkey making a TV drama depicting not all NATO but just some murderers in its midst. Is it a coincidence or it is the result of Turkey being NATO member state? May be it is a conviction that all children killed by NATO died as the result of tragic mistake but in case of Israel they were deliberately targeted because Israelis are not exactly human and enjoy killing children? http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/07/22/afghan-cda-shooting.html http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=686051&p=1

I'm not talking about in Gaza. I'm talking about in the halls of Congress, where AIPAC and ADL worked to stop a bill condemning the Armenian genocide, even though our natural allegiance should have been toward those who have been oppressed in a strange land. "Realpolitik" doesn't work when you're a country with so many devoted and devout enemies.

If one Googles alien invasion/abduction/sighting or big foot or Loch Ness monster one finds plenty of evidence for all of the above. I guess for you that is enough discussion is closed if you find them on the net they exist.

"The program you are about to see only depicts those Israeli soldiers who never actually shot anyone as depicted. Actual events may have been dramatised to suit those who wish to believe this".

Sure the posts before me make sense - let's blame Israel for having to go into Jenin and Gaza in order to stop the non-stop suicide bombing, terror attacks and firing of mortars and missiles into population centers by Palestinian terrorists. Let's not place the blame of the unfortunate death of innocent Palestinian civilians, including children, on the terrorists hiding amongst them. Israel held back and held back but at a certain point it must stand up and use the IDF to protect its citizens at all costs. The IDF goes to great lengths to avoid hurting the innocent population - it does so more than any other army in the world and a great risk to its soldiers. But it is much more convinient for the Palestinians and their supporters to blame Israel and the IDF rather than turning to the terrorists and criticizing them and ostrasizing them for their abhorent behavior and use of an innocent population as a human shield.

problem for the world civilization . As the trend in most Muslim countries , the primitives voted in the Islamists and this is just the beginning of the result of that trend . Who said it is not the war between civilized and uncivilized ? Who said it will ever be moderate ? In the "religion of peace" nothing will ever change just it will become more unruly and brutal as it is clear by now to all who wants to see the reality . But for some it is easy to live with eyes closed , for some who do not care about the consequences to the world peace . And Turkey , historicaly , has the most bloody history of all .

the IDF handing out bunnies to the children of Gaza, to the mothers of Gaza, to the crippled of Gaza, to the old of Gaza, to the homeless of Gaza, to those suffering in Gaza. Have we lost the Turks?

Last week we witnessed the signing of an historic agreement between Turkey and Armenia. The Turkish massacre of Armenean citizens in 1916 by Turks seems to have been buried. This week we read in the news about a Turkish film that creates a fictional 'massacre' of Gazans by Israeli soldiers. Isn't there a coincidence in the timing of the release of a fictional Turkish film broadcast on Turkish state TV immediately after the Turkish agreement with Armenia?

Israel has two commercial TV stations. It's high time one of them produced a series on the Turkis genocide of the Armenians during World War I, or on the Turkish atrocities recently committed against the Kurds. More important, it's time Israeli schools stopped ignoring the genocide of the Armenians.

We are back to the accusation of the middle ages where Jews were charged and burned for the crime of Christian children (to use their blood to cook matsot..). This led to anti-semitism and to the Shoah. This serie concerns me a lot as it comes from Turkey. I am very concerned for the Turkish Jews, as this will certainly detain on them. We must all oppose these stupid but extremely dangerous attempts to depict Israel and Jews this way.

"the IDF brutalizing the Palestinian population" - Read up about what happened in Gaza. "by shooting children in the chest" - see above "steamrolling a tank through a crowded street" - do a google search and you'll see this happening in the W.Bank on a near daily basis. "kicking elderly people on the ground" - seen any of the seperation wall protest videos? "which presents Israeli soldiers as murderers of innocent children,"--duh!? Maybe no one in Israel is aware of the brutality of the occupation - perhaps you should read/view non-Israeli news sources.

...and the IDF did kill civilians, children among them, during Cast Lead, as the world knows. So where is Israel's basis for complaint? (apart from the fact that Israel is always claiming to be the victim in every situation...)

actually, it is Liberman who has lost his link to reality. In operation Cast Lead, IOF forces have killed 1,100 civilians, including women and children. At least one documented case of a young girl shot to death in the chest.

1. Has the IDF or the colonists it protects shot Palestinian children? 2. Were entire streets in Palestinian cities not destroyed by rolling tanks coming through them, crushing cars and everything else in their path. Was this not doen in Jenin? in Ramaalah, to name of few. 3. Do we not have photograpic evidence of as well as testimony from IDF who have served in the occupied territories that the old are abused by soldiers or again by colonists, ie. in Hebron. Are there not those vcivilians who were in critical health and needed immediate emergency medical treatment who were refused entry and died as a result? What doe sthe moldovan pitbull have to say to Turkey about that?

I have always been a vocal critic of the politically correct movement in the US and its restrictions on freedom of speech, but when i read things like this it provides an inherently strong counter argument of why politically correct speech has become so pervasive. The alternative is too destructive. A certain amount of tact here by the Turks would've been much better than this.

This producer is guilty of not researching his stuff. Deaths like this happened in Turkey not Israel EVER. Perhaps also Syria (Hama) and others can be listed. Death in Cast lead where small in number and not calculated or intentional. Ask Hamas the rest. They were saints.

No-one complains about the constant bombardment of Jewish Hollywood films that keep going on about the Holocaust and Jewish suffering. And one Turkish TV show depicts what actually happened in Gaza and all hell breaks lose! Israel should shut up!

No Jewish or especialy Israeli must visit any part of Turkey. Don't buy anything from Turkey.

Anyone convicted? Noone. The Turks didn't grab the stories from thin air.

This is interesting, the Swedes could have used this argument, in that their blood libel only refers to those Jews who kill Arabs for their organs. Anybody who doesn't get it by now should start seeing the light about now. The level of the world is completely and repulsively immoral. Jews are good enough for the world to steal our religious wisdom and claim it as their own, but not good enough in their eyes to live in peace.

Not with this Middle Eastern mentality.