"Wounded pride inspires Turkey's first blockbuster
A new film takes umbrage at the US for an insult in northern Iraq, writes Nicolas Cheviron
February 08, 2006
DON'T fool with the honour of the Turks: that's the unequivocal message of a Turkish film that promises to be a blockbuster with its nationalistic overtones, gory action scenes and no-holds-barred anti-Americanism.
At the heart of the story of Valley of the Wolves: Iraq is a true event: the July 4, 2003, arrest in Suleymaniye, northern Iraq, of 11 Turkish soldiers by a US military unit on grounds of 'suspicious activity'."
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