Posted on 02/07/2006 7:08:10 AM PST by FFIGHTER
ISTANBUL, Turkey — The latest in a new genre of Turkish popular culture that vilifies the United States, a Turkish movie shows American soldiers in Iraq crashing a wedding and pumping a little boy full of lead in front of his mother.
They randomly machine-gun dozens of people to death, shoot the groom in the head and drag those left alive to Abu Ghraib prison — where a Jewish-American doctor cuts out their organs, which he sells to rich people in New York, London and Tel Aviv.
Valley of the Wolves: Iraq, which opened in Turkey on Friday, feeds off the increasingly negative feelings many Turks harbor toward their longtime allies: Americans. It stars Billy Zane as a self-professed "peacekeeper sent by God" and Gary Busey as the doctor.
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Then again maybe this will make him attractive again to Hollywood.
It's a good thing they're our "friends."
Perhaps we should start rioting and burning down some Hollywood landmarks to get our point accross.
i guess gary's head never healed quite right as he nearly died of head injuries in a motorcycle accident in December 1988. that may explain his poor behavior, tho i think hes most likely broke. i wouldnt make a movie like this for any reason. did sean penn direct it? ....disgusting so called stars are so hard up for work they make movies like this.
Quote from Turkish paper - "Valley of the Wolves: Iraq, which opened in Turkey on Friday, feeds off the increasingly negative feelings many Turks harbor toward their longtime allies: Americans. It stars Billy Zane as a self-professed "peacekeeper sent by God" and Gary Busey as the doctor.
The movie reportedly was made for some $10 million — the most expensive Turkish film ever — and it follows the best-selling novel Metal Storm, about a war between Turkey and the U.S.
One recent opinion poll revealed the depth of the hostility in Turkey toward Americans: 53 percent of Turks who responded to the 2005 Pew Global Attitudes survey associated Americans with the word "rude"; 70 percent with "violent"; 68 percent with "greedy"; and 57 percent with "immoral."
Advance tickets for the film already are selling out across Turkey. And the film is scheduled for release in more than a dozen other countries — including the United States.
U.S. soldiers have become hate figures in Muslim countries around the world after the war in Iraq. But in Turkey, a personal grudge fuels the resentment.
Valley of the Wolves: Iraq — a spinoff of a popular Turkish TV series — opens with a true story: On July 4, 2003, in northern Iraq, troops from the U.S. Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade raided and ransacked a Turkish special forces office, threw hoods over the heads of 11 officers, and held them in custody for more than two days.
The Americans said they had been looking for Iraqi insurgents and unwittingly rounded up the Turks because they were not in uniform.
Still, the incident damaged Turkish-U.S. relations and hurt Turkish national pride. Turks traditionally idolize their soldiers; most enthusiastically send their sons off for mandatory military service.
In the movie, which veers into fiction after the opening scenes, one of the Turkish special forces officers commits suicide to save his honor. His farewell letter reaches Polat Alemdar, an elite Turkish intelligence officer who travels to northern Iraq with a small group of men to avenge the humiliation. They find rogue U.S. soldiers led by Sam William Marshall (Zane). In the bloodfest that ensues, the small band of Turks bonds with the people of Iraq and eventually ends American atrocities there, killing Zane and his men in the final scene.
"The scenario is great," Istanbul Mayor Kadir Topbas told the Associated Press after the film was shown at a posh opening gala last week. "It was very successful. ... a soldier's honor must never be damaged."
But Topbas and other Turks at the premiere weren't too concerned about how the movie would be perceived in the United States.
"There isn't going to be a war over this," said Nefise Karatay, a Turkish model lounging on a sofa after the premiere. "Everyone knows that Americans have a good side. That's not what this is about."
Here is another article on this disgusting film, sure to win awards in Theran and Cannes and Hoolywierd:
MSNBC.com
New Turkish film villifies Americans
‘Valley of the Wolves: Iraq’ reflects a growing antipathy against the U.S.
The Associated Press
Updated: 4:47 p.m. ET Feb. 2, 2006
ISTANBUL, Turkey - The latest in a new genre of Turkish popular culture that vilifies the United States, a Turkish movie shows American soldiers in Iraq crashing a wedding and pumping a little boy full of lead in front of his mother.
They randomly machine-gun dozens of people to death, shoot the groom in the head and drag those left alive to Abu Ghraib prison — where a Jewish-American doctor cuts out their organs, which he sells to rich people in New York, London and Tel Aviv.
“Valley of the Wolves: Iraq,” which opens in Turkey on Friday, feeds off the increasingly negative feelings many Turks harbor toward their longtime allies: Americans. It stars Billy Zane as a self-professed “peacekeeper sent by God” and Gary Busey as the doctor.
The movie reportedly was made for some $10 million — the most expensive Turkish film ever — and it follows the best-selling novel “Metal Storm,” about a war between Turkey and the U.S.
One recent opinion poll revealed the depth of the hostility in Turkey toward Americans: 53 percent of Turks who responded to the 2005 Pew Global Attitudes survey associated Americans with the word “rude”; 70 percent with “violent”; 68 percent with “greedy”; and 57 percent with “immoral.”
Advance tickets for the film already are selling out across Turkey. And the film is scheduled for release in more than a dozen other countries — including the United States.
U.S. soldiers have become hate figures in Muslim countries around the world after the war in Iraq. But in Turkey, a personal grudge fuels the resentment.
“Valley of the Wolves: Iraq” — a spinoff of a popular Turkish TV series — opens with a true story: On July 4, 2003, in northern Iraq, troops from the U.S. Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade raided and ransacked a Turkish special forces office, threw hoods over the heads of 11 officers, and held them in custody for more than two days.
The Americans said they had been looking for Iraqi insurgents and unwittingly rounded up the Turks because they were not in uniform.
Still, the incident damaged Turkish-U.S. relations and hurt Turkish national pride. Turks traditionally idolize their soldiers; most enthusiastically send their sons off for mandatory military service.
In the movie, which veers into fiction after the opening scenes, one of the Turkish special forces officers commits suicide to save his honor. His farewell letter reaches Polat Alemdar, an elite Turkish intelligence officer who travels to northern Iraq with a small group of men to avenge the humiliation. They find rogue U.S. soldiers led by Sam William Marshall (Zane). In the bloodfest that ensues, the small band of Turks bonds with the people of Iraq and eventually ends American atrocities there, killing Zane and his men in the final scene.
“The scenario is great,” Istanbul Mayor Kadir Topbas told The Associated Press after the film was shown at a posh opening gala Tuesday night. “It was very successful. ... a soldier’s honor must never be damaged.”
But Topbas and other Turks at the premiere weren’t too concerned about how the movie would be perceived in the United States.
“There isn’t going to be a war over this,” said Nefise Karatay, a Turkish model lounging on a sofa after the premiere. “Everyone knows that Americans have a good side. That’s not what this is about.”
© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
© 2006 MSNBC.com
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11150082/
Why should that suprise anyone. They've been know to rewrite history in the past. 'Armenian genocide?? What Armenian genocide? Who, Greeks, they all moved volunteerarly back to mainland Greece'. No, no you all got it wrong, Turks were always the majority in Cyprus'. ;-)
PS: This movie SUCKS big time.
Well,
In the end does it really matter what they think?
How significant are they for Iraq today? How much control do they have over the Kurds in Northern Iraq?
After there Schroeder – ( EU membership support for no US troops on Turkish ground) deal sunk do you think we will give them their aid and loan package for being so nice and backing out of a deal that they had agreed to? lol
Schroeder is gone and the CDU is much more reluctant to let them in. So in the end they get NOTHING. No US aid or loans, AND no EU.
They failed- they blew their wad by gambling, and they lost big time. The full implications will come in small doses as the EU tells them “No/Nein/Non” for EU membership. Wait, the EU will create a new special side bar status just for Turkey where you’re not “really” a member but you can waive the EU flag, don’t you feel better now Turkey? lol
The significance of the Bosporus is not what it was, we don’t really NEED any bases on the Soviet Unions Southern flank and while we are still allies, they kind of pissed us off. They can make all the movies they want. It won't change the reality. They lost our favor, the EU won't take them, they lost all influence they once had in Iraq…….
Red6
All the top Muslim Turk politicos are praising this film. Why do we continue to send these monster holocaust deniers money?
“Emine Erdogan, the wife of Turkey’s prime
minister, has praised an anti-American film that depicts U.S. soldiers as coldblooded killers, calling it a beautiful film.”
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan “recommended the film to friends after a private screening.”
Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” was a best seller last year.
http://www.anca.org/assets/pdf/misc/valley.pdf
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