The anime's main protagonist Setsuna F. Seiei is a war orphan of Kurdish origins and his real name is Soran Ibrahim, a reference to the child actor portraying the protagonist of Turtles Can Fly.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Fly | fly | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series) | North Fly District | The Turtles | Fly My Pretties | Turtles All the Way Down | Tsetse fly | North Fly district | Iraqi no-fly zones | Gonna Fly Now | Fly FM | fly fishing | Donatello (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990 film) | Horse-fly | Fly to the Sky | Fly River | Fly fishing | Federation of Fly Fishers | Common green bottle fly | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 | Supa Dupa Fly | Stable fly | Fly, Robin, Fly | The Stinging Fly |
He consulted on Iranian-Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi's feature Turtles Can Fly (2004) and was a teacher of renowned Thai feature filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul.