Flotilla attack to be avenged in movie
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A photo from inside Israel's secret Navy commando unit F-13, which attacked the Flotilla
3-10-2010
Turkey is to make a movie which will see the country avenging the killing of nine of its pro-Palestinian activists by Israeli commandos.
Israeli commandos killed the Turkish nationals on May 31 as they were trying to reach the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip by sea as part of the Freedom Flotilla, an Ankara-backed humanitarian convoy.
In the movie the Valley of the Wolves - Palestine -- adopt from a TV series of the same name -- the protagonist captures the military commander planning and ordering the attack, the film's website said, according to the Associated Press.
The film is set on the Freedom Flotilla's lead vessel Mavi Marmara.
The assault has done a record damage to Israel-Turkey bilateral ties, already clouded over Tel Aviv's attacks on Gaza at the turn of 2009, which killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, mostly civilians.
Tel Aviv has taken issue with Ankara over the series which, besides other patriotic depictions, has featured the emancipation of a Turkish boy captured by the Israeli spy agency Mossad.
Reacting to the series, Israel called Turkish Ambassador Oguz Celikkol, reportedly seating him on a low couch and removing the Turkish flag from the table of discussion.
Celikkol was later quoted by the Anatolia news agency as denouncing the humiliating treatment as one "that will go down in the books of diplomatic history," AFP reported.
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