: The story follows Polat Alemdar (Necati Şaşmaz) and his commando team as they travel to northern Iraq to avenge the "Hood event"—a real-life 2003 incident where U.S. forces detained 11 Turkish special forces soldiers with hoods over their heads.
: The film was widely condemned in the West for alleged anti-American and anti-Semitic portrayals, particularly for a subplot involving a Jewish-American doctor harvesting organs from prisoners.
: In Turkey, it was a massive box office success and at the time was the most expensive Turkish film ever produced.
: The story follows Polat Alemdar (Necati Şaşmaz) and his commando team as they travel to northern Iraq to avenge the "Hood event"—a real-life 2003 incident where U.S. forces detained 11 Turkish special forces soldiers with hoods over their heads.
: The film was widely condemned in the West for alleged anti-American and anti-Semitic portrayals, particularly for a subplot involving a Jewish-American doctor harvesting organs from prisoners.
: In Turkey, it was a massive box office success and at the time was the most expensive Turkish film ever produced.