Turkish Production Company Plans to Shoot a Film on Karabakh and Khojalu

Turkish film production company Pana Film is planning to shoot a film on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and Khojalu events, according to Turkish news site Hurhaber.

Mehmet Janpolad, one of the directors of the film, and the cast and crew of another Pana Film project called Valley of Wolves (“Kurtlar Vadisi”), a popular Turkish TV series, are currently in Baku in the middle of preparations. Janpolad said that some footage on the Nagorno-Karabakh war and events in Khojalu might be included in the show.

An episode of this series that depicted Israeli Mossad agents spying inside Turkey and kidnapping Turkish babies was roundly criticized by the Israeli government and media, CNN had reported earlier.

The Turkish government's refusal to act on Israeli requests to more strictly censor the show had contributed to a deepening of a row between the two countries, culminating in Turkey's threat to recall ambassador to Israel Ahmet Oguz Celikkol after a controversial diplomatic meeting with Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon in January 2010, according to an earlier report by BBC News.