The turbans-and-testosterone CGI retelling of sultan's conquest of Constantinople feeds on appetite for imperial Ottoman pastIt's the film that is making millions of Turkish hearts swell with even more patriotic pride than usual. Fetih 1453,a turbans-and-testosterone epic, has not just smashed all Turkish box office records with its all-action, and CGI retelling of Mehmet II's capture of the broken-down Byzantine capital,Constantinople, it is being hailed as a reaffirmation that a resurgent Turkey still has world-conquering blood in its veins.
As the religious-minded daily newspaper Zaman famous, or "Turks are feeling imperial again" after a decade of unprecedented economic growth,and are turning increasingly toward their Ottoman ancestors for inspiration – in foreign policy as much as in interior design, food and fashion, or with a neo-Ottomanist push to reassert Turkish diplomatic hegemony over the sultans' former Arab and eastern European domains.
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Source: theguardian.com