What The ... Gary Busey and Billy Zane in Anti-US Propaganda Film From Turkey?

Oh my. This is one I found thanks to Grady over at Kaiju Shakedown and I've got to admit I'm fairly stunned by it.

Valley of the Wolves: Iraq is a big budget Turkish action picture that stars Billy Zane and Gary Busey in key roles. The film apparently takes its starting point from an actual incident between American and Turkish forces and, honestly, it doesn't sound as though the US behaved particularly well and the Turks took it very personally. But after the "real life" intro it spins off into pure propaganda territory. Some salient events from Grady:

"US soldiers arrest Turkish troops, pump an entire wedding full of hot lead, deport folks to Abu Ghraib and - from what I've been told - sets a Jewish vivisectionist to work on extracting their organs for the black market. Could it get any more scandalicious?"

Now the arrest, wedding massacre and deportations all have at least some roots in reality - though the only wedding incident I recall was actually a bombing and not the work of ground troops - but a US-Jewish black market organ harvesting conspiracy? Are you serious or just seriously out of your minds? If this is truly in the film then we're not talking a subtle anti-US backlash here, this is full on race based hate mongering.

Now, I'm beyond being surprised by anything Gary Busey may do. The man has become a walking freak show of late and I'm sure is just happy to pocket a pay check, but Billy Zane? Billy's actually working these days and this is the sort of thing that could easily get him blackballed ... what are you thinking, Billy?

The film apparently has an official website, but that appears to be dead at the moment. You can, however, find the production company's page for the film here.

Trailer (downloadable WMV)

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