First published at 20:39 UTC on September 3rd, 2017.
Valley of the Wolves: Iraq,' the most expensive Turkish movie ever made. The movie follows a Turkish intelligence agent as he seeks to avenge the officers and restore their honor. This wouldn’t be so bad if the film didn’t portray the opponents…
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Valley of the Wolves: Iraq,' the most expensive Turkish movie ever made. The movie follows a Turkish intelligence agent as he seeks to avenge the officers and restore their honor. This wouldn’t be so bad if the film didn’t portray the opponents of Turks and Muslims so brutally –- the bad guys in this black and white world are the Americans, the Kurds, the Christians and the Jews.
The movie portrays the Kurds of northern Iraq as puppets of the Americans and American soldiers as a motley crew of dirty, borderline insane cowards with the exception of one soldier who (what else?) sides with the Turks. The Americans’ atrocities include attacking a wedding and killing the groom as well as a child –- in front of its mother of course –- before relishing in the torture of any survivors.
The film makes Americans soldiers appear as repugnant, conspiratorial holy warriors admitting that their Christian faith commands them to drench the Islamic nations in blood with utmost cruelty, and to conquer the world for Jesus Christ. Islam, naturally, is depicted as the opposite –- a religion of peace and mercy.
As crazy as the plot sounds, similarly gory story lines constantly appear as 'news' in the Turkish and Arab media. The Middle East is awash with strange conspiracy theories, usually centering on some American-Zionist plot to subdue the Muslims while committing the most horrific hate crimes against peaceful Muslims.
When asked about the factual nature of the scenario, Bulent Arinc, the chairman of the Turkish Parliament, replied 'yes, this was exactly as it happened". He called the movie "an extraordinary film that will go into history'
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