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‘Valley
of the Wolves Iraq’ at SLCJ
By Susitha R. Fernando
Popular and controversial Turkish
film 'Valley of the Wolves Iraq' based on a true Story
of July 4, 2003, will be screened at Sri Lanka College
of Journalism No.65, Ward Place, Colombo 7 on Wednesday
September 27 2006 at 4.30 p.m.
The most expensive production ever
made in Turkey, the film is based on a television series
of the same name that has been a hit in Turkey for three
seasons. Directed by Serdar Akar Sadullah, the film
release is organised by the Sri Lanka Press Institute-Media
Resource Centre.
The movie opens with a real-life incident:
the arrest on July 4, 2003 of 11 Turkish special forces
soldiers and 13 civilians by U.S. troops in the northern
Iraqi town of Sulaymaniyah. This 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. Donald Rumsfeld
later issued a statement of regret for the detention,
but many Turks took great offence at the incident. The
film stars Necati Sasmaz, Billy Zane, Bulbul Altinkafes,Ghassan
Massoud and Gurkan Uygun.
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