2008 Turkish incursion into northern Iraq day of the operation, Turkish President Abdullah Gül made a telephone call to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, himself a Kurd, to brief him on the details of the incursion. He also invited Talabani to come to Turkey. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he called Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on the night the ground operation began, and later U.S. President George W. Bush. The United States was guarded in its response to the incursion, requesting that Turkey take care to only target the PKK, to "limit the scope and duration of their operations," and to work with Iraqi
Zal Batmanglij Sundance Film Festival. Shortly thereafter, Fox Searchlight Pictures purchased "Sound of My Voice", as well as Batmanglij and Marling's next feature script, "The East". Batmanglij also directed "The East", starring Marling, Ellen Page, and Alexander Skarsgård. The film premiered at Sundance in 2013. Batmanglij and Marling collaborated to create drama series "The OA", which debuted in 2016 on Netflix. It was written by Marling and Batmanglij, who produced the series along with Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of Plan B, and Michael Sugar of Anonymous Content. Zal Batmanglij Zal Batmanglij (born 1981) is an American film director and screenwriter. He