{"id":276,"date":"2006-03-11T18:55:01","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T23:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=276"},"modified":"2006-03-19T20:59:12","modified_gmt":"2006-03-20T01:59:12","slug":"controversy-over-turkish-movie-beyond-the-valley-of-the-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"Controversy Over Turkish Movie: Beyond the Valley of the Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/service.spiegel.de\/cache\/international\/0,1518,401565,00.html\">Controversy Over Turkish Movie: Beyond the Valley of the Wolves &#8211; International &#8211; SPIEGEL ONLINE &#8211; News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The film is based on an actual incident in northern Iraq on July 4, 2003: US soldiers arrested 11 Turkish officers and pulled bags over their heads before taking them away. The images were an insult to Turkish nationalists and anyone concerned with the country&#8217;s honor. Many Turks also suspected the US was taking revenge for the Turkish parliament&#8217;s refusal to allow the US to move troops through Turkey into Iraq during the 2003 Iraq war.<\/p>\n<p>The main theme of the movie is revenge (and maybe even the reason for the movie itself). The film follows a Turkish intelligence agent as he seeks to avenge the officers and restore their honor. This wouldn&#8217;t be so bad if the film didn&#8217;t portray the opponents of Turks and Muslims so brutally &#8212; the bad guys in this black and white world are the Americans, the Kurds, the Christians and the Jews.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controversy Over Turkish Movie: Beyond the Valley of the Wolves &#8211; International &#8211; SPIEGEL ONLINE &#8211; News &#8220;The film is based on an actual incident in northern Iraq on July 4, 2003: US soldiers arrested 11 Turkish officers and pulled bags over their heads before taking them away. The images were an insult to Turkish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}