As regards Midnight Express, which a lot of people have watched and made an immediate snap judgment on Turkey, the following quote is from the Wikipedia entry on this film:
"When he visited Turkey in 2004, screenwriter Oliver Stone, who won an Academy Award for the film, made an apology for the portrayal of the Turkish people in the film. He "eventually apologised for tampering with the truth.""
Some people can be so gullible- but it is their loss for not researching and trying to get near the reality or the truth.
Other people (and I know a few) believe Turkey to be either like Saudi Arabia complete with rolling desserts or like the Gaza Strip complete with bombed out houses and militia strutting AK47's!
All our visitors have departed this country with a completely different view from their initial one. They all long to return.