Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Valley of the Wolves Iraq is a popular Turkish film from 2006 based on a television series of the same name that has been a hit in Turkey for several seasons. The movie is set in northern Iraq during the Occupation of Iraq. There are some references to other real events such as the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the container shipping incident where prisoners were suffocated and shot was based on true events that occurred in Afghanistan. The film has been criticized as anti-American, anti-Christian, and antisemitic, and was banned in some theaters. Filmed with a budget of $14 million, Valley of the Wolves is the most expensive Turkish film ever made.