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Turkey’s Israel Problem

The AKP government’s portrayal of Gezi Park protests as a "plot by the Jewish lobby" has negatively affected the normalization process with Israel.
Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan reviews students of the Police Academy upon his arrival to their graduation ceremony in Ankara June 24, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW) - RTX10YXL
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Can anyone with a sane mind watching the movie “World War Z” in a Turkish cinema ever think that he lives in a normal country? It is the Turkish movie subtitles that prompt a sane person to think that this is a country gone amok.

References to the country named “Israel” and the city named "Jerusalem" heard in the original version of the movie were discarded. Instead of being translated, they were tweaked to a single word that defines a wide geographical and political region. In the subtitles, Israel and Jerusalem had both become the "Middle East."

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