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...bureaucrats, idealistic scholars and young people on the make. Mostly, Hessler focuses on four people: Emily, who gives up her well-paid factory job to train as a teacher of disabled children; Willy, a gifted young English instructor who blows the whistle on his superiors over leaked exam questions; Polat, a shady money changer from China's Uighur minority who eventually finagles his way into the U.S.; and Chen Mengjia, an oracle-bones scholar whose mysterious death during the Cultural Revolution bedevils Hessler. The scholar's tale is the only one without a satisfying ending, but Hessler finds inspiration...
...incident. In July 2003, 11 Turkish commandos were detained by U.S. troops in the Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah. Pictures showing the detained men cuffed and with sacks over their heads provoked outrage in Turkey, where nationalist sentiment runs deep. The film proceeds to pile on fiction. Turkish intelligence officer Polat Alemdar heads to north Iraq to seek out the U.S. troops responsible and avenge Turkish honor. There he discovers a rogue unit of U.S. soldiers led by officer Sam William Marshall, played by Billy Zane. After much blood-letting, Alemdar and his men bond with Iraqis and eventually end American...
...Turkish Finance Minister Hasan Polat-kan came to hammer out the precise uses to which inflation-ridden Turkey will put the $359 million in aid it has been promised by the U.S. and the members of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation. He was rewarded with the grant of an immediate $75 million to finance vitally needed imports...
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