An uproar has erupted in Germany over the upcoming launching of the Turkish film "Valley of the Wolves: Palestine," about Turkish commando team which goes to Israel to track down the Israeli military commander responsible for the Gaza flotilla raid. The film's intended release date in Germany, January 27, coincides with International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

At a ceremony in Beirut honoring the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza, with the participation of Lebanese politicians, representatives from the Iranian, Turkish, and Palestinian Authority Embassies in Lebanon, representatives of the Palestinian factions, and former British MP George Galloway, Bulent Yildirim, the head of the Turkish IHH organization that led the flotilla, said that there were three historic ships that would never be forgotten – Noah's Ark, the Titanic, and the Mavi Marmara.