Don't Waste Your Time

Yes that is what happened. In fact a number of nationalist press outlets here in Turkey actually steered people to review and vote up through urls to IMDB.

The film is mediocre at best, and while not as nationalist as some would think, has become the darling of nationalists who are reading iinto it conclusions that are no in the film.

It is the "Green Berets" of Turkey. Green Berets was a cheesy patriotic war movie set in Vietnam to lose to understanding Vietnam.

Ultimately this film is about failed military polices; and the craven, brutal and dishonorable conduct of our military leaders, who prolonged and exacerbated the war agaisnt the Kurds in the southeast of Turkey through a war of scorched earth, which any indigenous people would have reacted to with "terrorism."

It is precisely (and thankfully) the long march toward rejecting the parasitic military class (not the conscripts presented in the film but there leaders and strategists) and it policies, and the growth toward democracy that has reduced the rebel ions and terrorism among the Kurds -- not raping women and killing their children by the thousands.

Our solders are heroic, but our military leaders are a stain on the honor of Turkey and thankfully they are more and more frequently and effectively told to shut up. The Turkish people don't want conflict with our neighbors drummed up with nationalism so the Military can stay in power, and we don't want our minorities brutalized any more. Enough. we want to be a modern honorable people.