Edited sentence: " and "without exception [all the Turks] are presented as degenerate, stupid slobs".It was said that all Turks in the movie -guardian or prisoner- were portrayed as "losers" and "swines.New York Magazine criticized the film as "merely anti-Turkish, and hardly a defense of prisoners' rights or a protest against prison conditions".The coup was to "green light Midnight Express" which depicts Turkey "with insult".The film is described as "one of ... earlier coups" of Kirk Kerkorian -who then was the owner of MGM