Ayrılık: Aşkta ve Savaşta Filistin (literately Separation: Palestine at Love and War), known in English as Farewell, is a Turkish

Turkey

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 prime time

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 TV series aired on state broadcaster TRT

Turkish Radio and Television Corporation

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. The series started on 13 October 2009. The concept consultant of the series is columnist Hakan Albayrak

Hakan Albayrak

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 in daily Yeni Şafak

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  who had also been on the board of MV Mavi Marmara

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 during the Gaza flotilla raid

Gaza flotilla raid

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, while its script consultant is the trade union leader Yaşar Seyman who is a columnist of the left-wing daily BirGün

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Ayrılık is described as depicting IDF

Israel Defense Forces

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 soldiers being overjoyed by murdering Arab

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 civilians and killing newborn children in cold blood, snatching babies. It sparked angry protests from politicians and the media in Israel

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. Simon Wiesenthal Center

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 sent a notice on the series to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

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. Due to growing concerns, Israel

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i Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman summoned the Turkish ambassador and complained about the antisemitic content of Ayrılık. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu

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 concluded that the Turkish government is not liable for the series' content.

Dubai

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-based MBC 1

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 began airing the series in March 2010 and Dubai TV

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 had also purchased it. After the series' airing on MBC 1, a female Palestinian prisoner sent an appeal to Palestinian Prisoners' Society on behalf of other female detainees, demanding from the channel to stop broadcasting Ayrılık she blamed for depicting a Palestinian female prisoner get raped under detention and "This is humiliating to the entire Palestinian people

Palestinian people

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and only serves the occupation" she added.