Arrests after hate attack in New York community
the history of humanity, as material for entertainment at a film gala.”
But Mustafa Uslu, the producer, said they had intended only to convey the grave tone of the subject matter.
Our objective was to prepare our guests for the mood of the film,” Mr Uslu told Show Radyo last week.
“There most certainly was no other objective. If we unintentionally upset our Jewish citizens, I apologise to them.”
The film, which was released in Turkey last month, tells the story of Elyesa 2K_WK ° KU\X TWXÿW K\ ĘUāK\ 2K_WK ° who fed intelligence to Nazi Germany while working as a valet for the British ambassador to Turkey during the Second World War.
He used the codename Cicero to supply the German embassy in Ankara with documents including telegrams on plans for Allied attacks such as the D-Day invasion.
But Berlin made little use of the information he supplied. German officials also paid him in forged British pounds, meaning he could not spend his takings after the war and was convicted of circulating fake notes.
But Bazna was never convicted for his espionage work. He later moved to Munich, where he eventually worked as a night watchman until he died in 1970. His story was also depicted in a 1952 American spy film, 5 Fingers.
THREE MEN have been charged with a hate crime after a 51-year old Strictly Orthodox man was hospitalised following a “vicious assault” in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
CCTV footage showed a group pushing him to the ground, before repeatedly punching and kicking him.