There’s a new Turkish movie doing good business out there, Valley of The Wolves: Iraq, a big budget film filled with brutal Americans, brutal American atrocities and a brutal American doctor (oh yes, he’s Jewish) who cuts out the organs from captured Iraqis for transplant in Israel.

Being an old-fashioned guy, I’m reluctant to judge a movie that I haven’t seen, but this film certainly sounds unpleasant. And revoltingly anti-Semitic, yup, that too.

If that is what the Turks want to watch, that’s up to them, but it would be interesting to hear what Turkish PM Erdogan had to say about this epic. We know his wife enjoyed the movie, but surely Erdogan, a much-vaunted ‘moderate’ who called for laws against rough stuff such as those pesky Danish cartoons will have called for its banning.

Well, it doesn’t seem that he has.

Odd that.

Turkey in the EU? I don’t think so.

Meanwhile a Scandinavian friend describes watching this movie in Berlin:

“Have just seen the Turkish film [that] everybody is talking about, with horrifying violence committed by a homosexual piano-playing Christian American who kills and tortures Muslims in Iraq and cooperates with a doctor who steals kidneys and other things …from dead Muslims and exports them to Israel.. It now runs in lots of cinemas in Germany where young Turks, girls included, cheer it on loudly…I saw it in Berlin with a Jewish friend. When I kept on making my usual noisy comments during the film, he suggested we kept a low profile. We had a stiff drink afterwards.”

Very wise, I reckon.