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Last Monday, the images with the crew of the Turkish freighter “Roselyn A” concentrated in a camera –with their hands up and under the barrels of the men of the company “Paz»To control the UN arms embargo on Libya- caused a stir in Turkey and strong protest from Ankara. Although the EU and Germany stressed that the procedure followed in the lawsuit against the Turkish vessel it was perfectly legal and in accordance with the provisionsAnkara has maintained a high tone, even threatening “retaliation” when considering the military escort of cargo ships heading to the Libyan port of Misrata, which is controlled by Saraj.
Articles from Turkish newspapers and analysts, described the incident in “Roseline A”, similar to what happened in the city of Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq, 17 years ago and it crucially touched the pride and selfishness of the Turks.
The German commandos tried to control the Turkish ship by helicopter.
Retired Admiral Cem Gurteniz, what is considered “Guru” of the “Blue Homeland” theory adopted and implemented by the Erdogan government, it described the conspiracy as “piracy” as an incident in Iraq. “It just came to our attention then. Turkey must now crack down on this theft. It is an incident like that. “Crossing bags” in Iraq. There is no such thing “ declared characteristics.
Although the two incidents cannot be considered of equal importance and gravity, their connection is used by Ankara’s propaganda mechanism to sharpen the spirits of Turkish public opinion, at a time when difficult for the Erdogan government, due to the current economic crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic and the many fronts that Erdogan has opened with neighboring countries and beyond.
The images that evoked memories in the Turks.
The “looting” that shocked Turkey
On April 7, 2003, almost five months after the start of the military operation between the United States and the United Kingdom to overthrow the then Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, A US military base has raided Iraqi offices Turkmenistan Front, city center Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq. During the raid, 24 people were arrested, of which 11 were Turkish officers and soldiers -among them a colonel- of the special forces who were in Iraq, in the context of NATO operations.
The position of the Turkish ship.
The Americans followed the well-known procedure, handcuffing the detainees and covering their heads with burlap sacks. As it became known at the time, the action of the Americans was based on information that “subversive” elements were planning the assassination of the then newly elected Kurdish mayor of the city of Kirkuk, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. The indications of the Americans “photographed” members of the Turkmen Front, which was also the target of the armed attack against Suleiman.
A German frigate led by a Greek commander in the eastern Mediterranean illegally intercepts a Turkish commercial ship carrying food and paint for transfer to Libyattps: //t.co/k75YafLCSb pic.twitter.com/gD9vKWuxKT
– DAILY SABAH (@DailySabah) November 23, 2020
However, the 11 Turkish soldiers were in the same area, certainly not by chance in civilian clothes and without identity documents, while after checking them they were found 15 kg of special explosives used for the sabotage of the C-4, various grenades suitable for lethal weapons, weapons, 100 thousand dollars, dozens of shots for various attacks in the Kirkuk area and many secret documents. The photos of the Turkish soldiers with their heads covered, tied to a pole in the truck, by the Americans caused a stir in Turkey. The newly elected Erdogan government characterized “Great insult” The incident took place along the same lines, with the newspapers of the time moving in the same direction, with articles and high-profile headlines, characterized by anti-American sentiment and talking about a US operation against the… Turkish army.
Reacting to the capture of your military, Turkey threatened the United States with retaliation warning about the closure of Turkish airspace on US military flights and the cessation of use of the Incirlik base. The Turkish soldiers were released sixty hours after the Turkish government protests to Washington.
The American position was then, according to a newspaper article The Washington Times, that the captured Turks were equipping the Turks in northern Iraq to resist the Kurds, who are the majority in the region. Ankara has used the Turkmen minority in northern Iraq to train and equip them to prevent the creation of an independent Kurdish state in the region. As it became known then, the Americans, who appear to have been aware of the Turks’ movements, had warned Ankara to stop using the Turkmen for its plans.
Watch the video: The trailer for the movie “The Valley of the Wolves-Iraq”
The Turk … “Rambo” against the Americans
In 2006, the Sulaymaniyah incident in northern Iraq was the focus of Turkish overproduction. “The Valley of the Wolves-Iraq”, It is considered the most expensive film ever shot in Turkey at a cost of up to 10 million dollars. It was essentially a propaganda movie, with the classic plot of a Hollywood action movie, with “good” Turks and “bad” Americans. The enemy is not an oppressive dictatorship of the third world type. The commander is named Sam, like Uncle Sam, and the enemy forces are the Americans, who are being punished for inflicting suffering on the Turks and damaging the pride and honor of the Iraqi people. In a statement, screenwriter Bahadir Ozdener said the goal of the film was “to talk about human rights abuses by the occupying forces,” that is, the US troops in Iraq at the time.
Scene from the Turkish propaganda film “Valley of the Wolves-Iraq”.
The protagonist of the film was Polat Alemdar, also known as the Turk … “Rambo”, posing as the man of the Turkish secret services. The protagonist agrees to “clean up” on behalf of his girlfriend, Leila, who asks for his help to avenge the murder of her husband during the American raid on her wedding. In the film, American soldiers capture many of the wedding guests.while a Jewish doctor extracts organs from prisoners to sell to wealthy Western countries. The target of “Rambo” and Leila becomes Sam William Marshall, commander of the American soldiers who carried out the raid.
The projection of the Turkish film, which “broke the box office” during its projection in the country’s cinemas, caused a mini “crisis” in diplomatic relations between the United States and Turkey.
The film was fully supported by the Erdogan government., which, according to reports at the time, financed it with “secret funds”, allocating the entire mechanism of the Ministry of Defense to the production side. In fact, Tayyip Erdogan and his family were present at the film’s premiere, while comments from then President of the Turkish National Assembly Bulent Arinc. The screening of the film, which “broke the box office” during its projection in theaters of the country, caused a mini crisis in diplomatic relations between the United States and Turkey, “Putting them to the test”, as a statement from the Turkish embassy in Ankara had said at the time. In fact, American soldiers, who served at the Incirlik military base, were instructed not to watch the film and to be careful when leaving.
However, there have also been critical voices for the overproduction of propaganda, such as critical cinema. Attila dorsay, who wrote that there is not a single good American in the script and that the film was shot almost with Bin Laden’s “perspective”. Polat starred in two more films that completed the “Valley of the Wolves” trilogy.. In the second film, the Turk … “Rambo” avenged the death of the Turks who participated in the Gaza flotilla and were killed in 2010 by Israeli commandos. In the latest film, “The Valley of the Wolf Strike,” the protagonist reveals who is behind the failed coup against Erdogan in 2016, with advice for the US position.
They did not forget the flute
In 2014 members of the nationalist organization “Turkish Youth Union” (TGB), andUS sailors aboard the destroyer USS ROSS docking in Istanbul’s Saraiburno port. The American ship earlier, participated in a NATO exercise in the Black Sea. TGB members handed sacks to three US soldiers, shouting slogans like “Cut Go to Home » Y “Down with US imperialism “, while they put red paint on them.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry condemned the action against the American sailors, calling her “unholy”. However, twelve members of the nationalist organization who were arrested after the incident, then they were released.
Two years later, two other young men, members of the same nationalist organization, were arrested after an attack on a US military base in Incirlik. The two Turks chased the American and put a sack on his head, shouting one of them: “You put bags on our soldiers’ heads in 2003. You are responsible for terrorism in our country.”, referring to the 2003 incident in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.
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