While the stereotyping and the enemy making of a certain group of peoples seems to be reserved for the Americans versus the other, the Turkish film Valley of the Wolves: Iraq instead flips the script by doing so to the Americans from an Iraqi/ Turkish standpoint. This film includes a dramatization of the events of July 4, 2003, when American Marines raided Turkish Special Forces offices in Sulimaniyah, put hoods on the Special Forces heads, and detained them for several days. After this they claimed to have mistaken the soldiers for insurgents, but Turkey nonetheless experienced national shame. American soldiers are then depicted raiding a wedding, massacring and arresting dozens of people, torturing innocent citizens in the Abu Ghraib prison, and selling their organs on the black market-- among other atrocities. The film casts a light on the injustices faced by the Turkish and American peoples, as well as the disconnect between government and the general population. While America and Turkey are allies in the eyes of their respective governments, events like the Abu Ghraib prison torturing and unnecessary raids by the Americans paint them in an almost completely negative fashion in the eyes of the Turks and Iraqis.
