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The Mavi Marmara and two other Turkish ships were part of a flotilla sailing toward Gaza to protest Israel's blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory. Israel insisted its troops acted in self-defense after being attacked by activists on board. Last week, a report by three U.N.-appointed human rights experts found that Israeli forces violated international law when they raided the flotilla. Israel responded saying the Human Rights Council, which commissioned the report, had a "biased, politicized and extremist approach." The "Valley of the Wolves" films and TV series are highly popular in Turkey but are also severely criticized for stocking nationalism and glorifying violence. In the early years of the TV series, upset fans held a minute of silence in the memory of one of the heroes who was killed off. They had obituaries printed in newspaper expressing their grief, while a gang of angry youths beat up the actor who played his killer.
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