After a fictionalized depiction of a real-life incident, the film opens with the arrest on July 4, 2003, of 11 Turkish special forces soldiers and 13 civilians by U.S. forces of the 173rd Airborne Division, under the command of Colonel William C. Mayville, in the northern Iraqi Kurdish town of Sulaymaniyah. The Turkish soldiers are under the impression that they are receiving a routine visit from their NATO friends. This time, however, things are different.
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After a fictionalized depiction of a real-life incident, the film opens with the arrest on July 4, 2003, of 11 Turkish special forces soldiers and 13 civilians by U.S. forces of the 173rd Airborne Division, under the command of Colonel William C. Mayville, in the northern Iraqi Kurdish town of Sulaymaniyah. The Turkish soldiers are under the impression that they are receiving a routine visit from their NATO friends. This time, however, things are different.
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