Five Minarets in New York

Two Turkish counterterrorism agents are sent to New York to track down a wanted religious leader known by the codename Dajjal, who is believed to be hiding in the city. Working alongside the FBI and the NYPD, they carry out the arrest of Hadji Gumus, a respected Muslim scholar and family man who had fled to the United States years earlier after serving a prison sentence in Turkey. What follows is a story about love, friendship, peace and prejudice, and about whether innocence or guilt carries any weight for someone driven by a desire for revenge.

Five Minarets in New York is a 2010 American drama directed by Mahsun Kırmızıgül, who also wrote the screenplay. It was his third film as director, after Beyaz Melek in 2007 and I Saw the Sun in 2009, and it was produced by Murat Tokat. The cast includes Haluk Bilginer as Hacı, Mustafa Sandal as Acar, Gina Gershon as Maria, Danny Glover as Marcus and Robert Patrick as Becker, with Kırmızıgül himself playing Fırat. Twenty-one performers are credited in total.

The film was made for a budget of twelve million dollars. Its ratings are modest: on IMDb it holds 5.7 out of 10 from around sixteen thousand votes, and on TMDB 5.5 out of 10 from a much smaller number of votes. The gap in vote counts between the two sites means the IMDb figure reflects a far broader range of viewers.