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News, Etc. It was again a television serial aired almost a year after the Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s televised row with the Israeli President Shimon Peres in Davos that poured more oil on the fire intensifying the “war of words” between Ankara and Jerusalem. This time the setting of the scene in the serial “Valley of Wolves” was a safe house used by the Israeli Embassy where a Turkish kid kidnapped by the Israeli agents was being kept. Polat Alemdar, the pistol packing hero of the serial raids the house, pumps few bullets into the head of the Israeli agent and the blood splashes on the wall where the spectators see a Star of David, Israel’s national emblem, stained in red. Danny Ayalon, the Israeli deputy foreign minister, summoned the Turkish ambassador Oguz Celikkol to tell him that the serial consists of anti-Semitism in a “new package” and such material was not fit to be aired even in an enemy country let alone in Turkey which is a strategic ally of Israel. He said the episode presented the Israelis and Jews as “baby snatchers,” and threatened not only the relations between the two countries but also the lives of Jewish minority members living in Turkey. The Turkish media reports criticized Ayalon’s behavior during the meeting claiming that he refused to shake hands with the Turkish ambassador and made him sit on a lower seat than his own. At this stage Prime Minister Erdogan joined in and accused Israel of violating United Nations resolutions by bombing Gazza. “Does the Israeli government support peace or not? The other day they bombed Gazza again. There was no reason for it. They are using weapons of mass destruction like phosphorus bombs. They want to say we do whatever we want, nobody can stop […]