"Troops are urged to avoid theaters with Turkish film
Army says “Kurtlar Vadisi Irak” depicts GIs as indiscriminate killers
By Ben Murray, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Murad Sezer / AP
A woman stands next to a billboard featuring the new Turkish movie “Valley of the Wolves Iraq” in Istanbul, Turkey. Tickets for the movie, the latest of a genre of pop culture works feeding off growing anti-American sentiment in Turkey, are selling out across the country.
Soldiers in Europe have been advised to avoid movie theaters showing a new Turkish film that depicts U.S. soldiers as indiscriminate killers of Iraqis, according to an Army communication circulated last week."
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