Ultranationalist TV series again cited for inspiring targeting of Christians.
Compass Direct News According to an NTV report on New Year’s Day, Tabuk confessed during police interrogations that he was planning to kill Arkan to get money, just as was occurring on the popular TV series, “Valley of the Wolves.” A 19-year-old Muslim youth who stabbed an Italian priest in the stomach on December 16 reportedly admitted in his statement to police that he also had been influenced by an episode of “Valley of the Wolves.” Father Adriano Franchini, 65, was hospitalized overnight in the Aegean city of Izmir and released. Together with 20 other Protestant church leaders, Arkan had signed a formal complaint filed with the Istanbul State Prosecutor’s office on December 3, protesting against Show TV’s weekly “Valley of the Wolves” for offending Christians by “presenting them as a terrorist group and broadcasting scenes making them an open target.” The series has portrayed Christians as selling body parts, being involved in mafia activities and prostitution and working as enemies of society in order to spread the Christian faith. “The result has been innumerable, direct threats, attacks against places of worship and eventually, the live slaughter of three innocent Christians in Malatya,” the complaint stated. The Protestant leaders demanded that Show TV and the producers of “Valley of the Wolves” be prosecuted under sections 115, 214, 215, 216 and 288 of the Turkish penal code for spreading false information and inciting violence against Christians. “We are Turks, Turkish citizens, but our faith is Christian,” Arkan told NTV in a January 1 interview. “We want to live out this faith in this country in the best possible way.”
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