"Bad Blood on The Big Screen
A Turkish Rambo takes on the U.S. — and moviegoers are loving it
By PELIN TURGUT / ISTANBUL
UMIT BEKTAS / REUTERS
The anti-U.S. film Valley of the Wolves Iraq has caught Turkey's eye
Sunday, Feb. 05, 2006
The movie high jinks of a Turkish Rambo who single-handedly takes on U.S. forces in lawless northern Iraq are filling cinemas across Turkey, America's only predominantly Muslim nato ally. Valley of the Wolves Iraq, which is set to break Turkish box-office records, shows U.S. soldiers in Iraq as they raid a wedding, machine-gun the guests, and take survivors to a prison where a Jewish doctor removes their organs for rich people in the West. Subtle it ain't, but Turks are in a frenzy over it. Advance tickets sold out weeks ago; cabinet ministers, businessmen and even the Prime Minister's wife and daughters packed the glitzy premiere in the capital Ankara."
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