Valley of the Wolves

Valley of the Wolves, in Turkish Kurtlar Vadisi, is a Turkish media franchise created by Osman Sınav that grew out of a television series of the same name, which aired for 97 episodes from 2003 to 2005. The original series follows Polat Alemdar, played by Necati Şaşmaz, a Turkish intelligence agent working under an assumed identity to infiltrate the Turkish mafia. The franchise later added the television series Terror and Ambush, the latter airing from 2007 to 2016, along with the spin-off films Iraq in 2006, Muro in 2008, Gladio in 2009, Palestine in 2011 and Homeland in 2017, and books. It drew high ratings in Turkey, and the first film was among the highest-grossing Turkish films of its year. The franchise has also been a source of political controversy, including a diplomatic dispute with Israel over an episode of Ambush.