Imaginations and realities : encoding Turkish geopolitics in the valley of the wolves-Palestine

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This paper aims to analyze the links between the film Valley of the Wolves-Palestine and current geopolitical events, Turkey’s geopolitical visions, and the geopolitical imaginations of the filmmakers, and real events and imaginations by recognizing the site of production.

To do this, I included two interviews; one with a Mavi Marmara activist and another with one of the scriptwriters of the movie.

Conversations with the interviewees highlighted those geopolitical imaginations and geographical codes that influenced the movie, Valley of the Wolves-Palestine, to some extent, which has corresponded with the geographical imagination that is internalized by the practical geopolitics experts in Turkey.