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''Valley of the Wolves: Iraq'' ((トルコ語:Kurtlar Vadisi: Irak)) is a 2006 Turkish action film directed by Serdar Akar and starring Necati Şaşmaz, Billy Zane and Ghassan Massoud. The story concerns a Turkish commando team which goes to Iraq to track down the US military commander responsible for the Hood event. The film is set during the occupation of Iraq and includes references to other real events such as the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on , was the highest-grossing Turkish films of 2006 and is one of the most expensive Turkish films ever made. It is part of the ''Valley of the Wolves'' media franchise, based on the Turkish television series of the same name, and was followed by ''Valley of the Wolves: Gladio'' (2008) and ''Valley of the Wolves: Palestine'' (2010). Filmed with a budget of $14 million, this was the most expensive Turkish film ever made at the time of its release before being surpassed by A.R.O.G..〔 The film grossed $27.9 million at the box office — $25.1 million in Turkey and $2.8 million in Europe. Opinions of the film greatly varied. While the ''Wall Street Journal'' characterized it as "a cross between 'American Psycho' in uniform and the ''Protocols of the Elders of Zion''", Turkey's parliamentary speaker Bulent Arinc described it as "absolutely magnificent". ==Background== The film covers through fiction real-life events like the occupation of Iraq, the execution of Daniel Pearl and the Abu Ghraib torture scandal. Nevertheless, the film's primary focus is the Hood event ((トルコ語:Çuval Olayı)), an incident on July 4, 2003 following the 2003 invasion of Iraq where a group of Turkish military personnel operating in northern Iraq were captured, led away with hoods over their heads, and interrogated by the United States military. The arrest is infamous in Turkey as the so-called "Hood event". The soldiers were led out of their headquarters at gunpoint, with hoods over their heads and subsequently detained for sixty hours before being released, after Turkey protested to the United States. This was the first time such an incident had taken place between the two NATO allies. Though neither side ever apologized, a US-Turkish commission set up to investigate the incident later issued a joint statement of regret. In addition, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wrote a letter to the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, expressing sorrow over what had happened.〔(Abundance of 'Rumsfeld letters' in Turkish press ) ''Hürriyet Daily News'', 7/20/2003〕 Many Turks took offense at the incident while it lasted, and after it as well. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Valley of the Wolves: Iraq」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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