Metal fırtına

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For the experimental weapons technology, see Metal Storm.

**Title** **Metal Storm**
Author	Orkun Uçar, Burak Turna
Original title	Metal fırtına
Country	Turkey
Language	Turkish
Genre(s)	Novel
Publisher
Released	2004

Metal fırtına (English: Metal Storm) is a 2004 novel from Turkey by Orkun Uçar and Burak Turna. It became an immediate bestseller in Turkey, with several hundred thousand copies sold as of 2006.

The book gained international attention mainly because of its plot about a war between Turkey and the United States (who are NATO allies) and because of its enthusiastic reception in Turkey. According to the Turkish newspaper Radikal, "the Foreign Ministry and General Staff are reading it keenly" and "all cabinet members also have it".

The book's plot and reception is thought by most observers to reflect an increasing level of popular distrust or hostility towards the U.S. in the wake of the 2003 Iraq war and especially of the 2003 "hood event" that was perceived as a national humiliation in Turkey.

[edit] Plot summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

In the novel, set in 2007, the U.S. military invades Turkey to gain control of its deposits of the important strategic resource borax. After securing the principal cities in Turkey, the U.S. attempts to re-enact the Treaty of Sèvres by dividing Turkey up between its historic rivals Greece and Armenia. Turkey responds by forming a military alliance with China, Russia and Germany. A Turkish agent then steals a U.S. nuclear warhead and detonates it in Washington, D.C., killing millions and forcing an end of the invasion.

The U.S. government in the novel is led by a nameless president reminiscent of George W. Bush and portrayed as an Evangelical zealot. It also includes real-life U.S. cabinet members Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld. The novel also features then-current real-life political leaders at the helm of their respective nations.