"Midnight Express" 20 Years Later: A Turkish Nightmare

Haul Sahin, one of Turkey's top TV journalists, is on the board of NPQ Turkiye.

Istanbul - I remember the first time I realized the seriousness of the damage caused by Midnight Express. It was, I think, a few weeks after the movie had been released in 1978. Upon a chance encounter, a young man - a white, middle-class, male college student in Cleveland Ohio - asked me where I was from.

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