Turkey to sue Egoyan over 'Ararat'

[Armenia]

TURKEY PLANS TO SUE CANADIAN MOVIE DIRECTOR

ArmenPress News Agency
Nov 28 2001

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 28, ARMENPRESS The Turkish government intends
to institute legal proceedings against "propagandizing hatred and
defaming Turkish people", in against a Canadian-Armenian well-known
film director Atom Egoyan.

According to the Turkish Star daily, Atom Egoyan's new film
'Ararat', describing the Armenian Genocide, raised much noise.

As the daily notes, it was impossible to prevent the shooting of
the film, financed by the Miramax Film Company, by any legal means,
and it is expected to be shown in May. According to Star, after
showing the film in France, Canada and USA the Turkish authorities
will institute legal proceedings, aiming to ban showing the film.

It should be mentioned that Turkey will not be satisfied with
legal claims only, it has already called on all the world Turkish
organizations to take active measures to prevent the film shooting
and ban its showing.

According to Star, Turkey in its turn will start shooting its own
film, describing the "violences" of Armenian and Russian army in Van
and Kars in 1915-1919.

Egoyan intends to present this film to Oscar Prize, and show the
first night at Cannes film festival. Star daily is much concerned
about a number of scenes, which show atrocities of Turks towards
Armenians in those years.

[Lilya]

The Turks don't have to worry about the movie "propagandizing" hatred against the turks, they are already hated by many. the movie just shows the world what really happened. It's about time they are held responsible for what they did. they can't win a law suit over Egoyan's mild portrayal of what they did. [/b]

[Anonymouse]

I'm afraid the imperial masters of the US Empire have Turkey as their ally and so that helps hush up whatever talk there is of the genocide.

Another thing adding to the soup is the Holocaust. It attracts more attention and has been commercially exploited by Jews to the point of insanity. One might as well have a Trade Mark symbol after it.

[Andromida806]

Well said

[Miss Classy]

1st of all...the turks are animals and deserve 2 b treated accordingly. :x i live in sydney, australia...and as far as i know...my agoump is the only 1 in sydney that has viewed the movie.

the truth hurts. in 1915, 1.8 million Armenians were slaughtered by the turks like animals. ofcourse theyre gna sue...they dont want 2 ever b brought 2 justice.! turkey sued microsoft 4 mentioning the Armenian Genocide in their Encarta program. Do u honestly think that if the situations were reversed, the turks would let us 4get what happened? ofcourse not.

God will show the turks the same mercy they showed us...NONE...i pray 4 the day where a turk begs an Armenian 4 his life...just as we begged...i wait 4 the day i can fly an Armenian flag over the summits of Ararat...

[WeRuLe]

Turkey is the dumbest and hated country in the world!

I think there should be more movies not only about the Armenian Genocide but the Armenian community as well. Not only make the turks,Azeeris mad but to make it known. Because Turkey is trying to demolish the Armenian Diaspora!

[WeRuLe]

Turkey is the dumbest and hated country in the world!

I think there should be more movies not only about the Armenian Genocide but the Armenian community as well. Not only make the turks,Azeeris mad but to make it known. Because Turkey is trying to demolish the Armenian Diaspora!

[xBaron Dants]

It's not the turks that are trying to ruin the armenian diaspora. It's the armenian diaspora.

[turks_must_die]

turkey is GAY

turkey can do whatever they want, they cannot sue anyone for showing the truth..... they can pretend and threaten to sue, to discourage us from showing the truth, but thats about as far as their big words can go, even the countries that have not recognized the genocide now, still know it happened, it is just not in their interest to recognize it at the moment, but the whole world knows it happened.... USA will do it soon, then turkey will not have anyone to run to...... all a matter of time, and nobody can beat time....

[jahannam]

Re: turkey is GAY

it is just not in their interest to recognize it at the moment, but the whole world knows it happened.... USA will do it soon, then turkey will not have anyone to run to...... all a matter of time, and nobody can beat time....

are you a psychic reader or something?
I mean as much as i want em to recognize it...
but you're being too confident about something you dont have control of...
get over it... it's not happening
we're not Jews... we're Armenian...