

Turkey's growing sense of patriotism had been catered for over the past decade with Valley of the Wolves, a TV and film franchise in which the no-nonsense secret agent Polat Alemdar regularly triumphs – usually quite violently – over his country's foes. Even the latest Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, has been accused of being an anti-leftist response to the recent Occupy Wall Street movement.īut perhaps few film industries are so reflective of current moods than Turkey’s, a country that has seen itself emerge as a major political force on the world stage while at the same time experiencing the sort of GDP figures that have had most major economies frothing with envy.

Hollywood has regularly mirrored attitudes within the US, with the film noir period arising out of post-Second World War paranoia and titles such as Apocalypse Now and Platoon echoing the racial, class and cultural divisions that were present in the US during the Vietnam War. It has often been said that films help reflect the mood within a country during a particular period.
