Behzat Ç. Ankara Is Burning (Behzat Ç. Ankara Yanıyor) (translated)

Behzat Ç. Ankara Yanıyor (Behzat Ç. Ankara Is Burning) is a Turkish action and detective film that opened on November 1, 2013. Serdar Akar directed, Tarkan Karlıdağ produced and Ercan Mehmet Erdem wrote the screenplay. It is the second cinema film of Behzat Ç., a series considered among the best-loved in Turkish television history that ended after three seasons. It follows Behzat Ç. Seni Kalbime Gömdüm by two years and continues the third season's story.

After Behzat Ç. leaves, a new chief inspector, Himmet, is assigned to the Ankara homicide bureau. When the Interior Minister is the target of an assassination, Himmet steers his team to work with the counter-terrorism unit, although two murder files sit on the desk. Tahsin puts those killings first and decides to call Behzat Ç. back on temporary duty. Behzat hesitates, then takes up the investigation with his old crew. Erdal Beşikçioğlu leads, joined by Fatih Artman, İnanç Konukçu, Nejat İşler, Sanem Çelik, Aslı Tandoğan and Seda Bakan.

The film got middling marks from the press, while audiences were more generous. One critic counted the move of an Ankara police drama from television to the cinema as a success in itself.