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In what is said to be the most expensive Turkish film ever made, American soldiers in Iraq are depicted and brutal savages who radomly shoot civilians and who sell living Iraqis to a Jewish-American doctor for organ harvesting. According to the CNN report, The movie, called Valley of the Wolves Iraq "opens with a true story: On July 4, 2003, in Sulaymaniyah, 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 Turkish special forces officers and held them in custody for more than two days."

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Billy Zane and Gary Busey star in the film, which may be representative of public opinion in turjey regarding the United States. It "comes on the heels of a novel, Metal Storm, about a war between Turkey and the U.S., which has been a best-seller for months.

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'."

Read the full CNN article here.