Don't put the Bat signal up in this country.
Content Warning: The following contains accounts of abuse.There are a host of reasons why countries ban films, file lawsuits, and/or edit films severely: religious grounds, moral grounds, extremely graphic scenes, and more. Even Greta Gerwig's Barbie has been banned in Vietnam over a disputed line on a map in one scene, and it hasn't even been released yet. But nothing comes close to what happened with Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight and the country of Turkey.
If the story simply ended there, it would be just another wacky lawsuit, but the mayor then suggested that the success of The Dark Knight had a severely negative psychological impact on the city's inhabitants. As a result, the film was to blame for a number of unsolved murders and a high female suicide rate. It was a very disturbing and untrue allegation to lay at the feet of a Hollywood blockbuster. Besides, murder and suicides plagued the city well before the film had even been released.
Head of the Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights Commission of the Istanbul Bar, lawyer Vehbi Kahveci, told sources the "Batman" name was registered worldwide, and if the town wanted to launch a lawsuit about infringement on its name, they missed the timeframe completely to do so.
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