The Turkish Minister of Culture is in favour of showing "Ararat" in Turkey. Let's hope the movie's not censored to the point where it is useless. Nice victory nevertheless.....if they finally do decide to show it.
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Film on Ottoman Killings to Be Shown in Turkey
Aljazeerah.info
Dec 29, 2003
ANKARA, 28 December 2003 - A Turkish minister yesterday said he was
in favor of allowing a controversial movie on the mass killings of
Armenians under the Ottoman Empire to be screened in the country,
but played it down as "ridiculous propaganda," Anatolia news agency
reported.
Culture and Tourism Minister Erkan Mumcu said he welcomed a decision by
a cinema watchdog to allow the movie "Ararat" by Canadian director Atom
Egoyan, who is of Armenian descent, to be shown in Turkish theatres.
"If some people are curious, they can go and see it... According to
information I have... it is a film which is very much didactic and
can even be described as ridiculous propaganda," Mumcu said in the
southern town of Kemer, according to Anatolia.
The massacres of Armenians during World War I is one of the most
controversial episodes in Turkish history. The mass-selling daily
Hurriyet Saturday quoted Mumcu as saying that "one or two scenes of
offensive quality" had been censored in the film, which is expected
to hit the screens in mid-January.
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Film on Ottoman Killings to Be Shown in Turkey
Aljazeerah.info
Dec 29, 2003
ANKARA, 28 December 2003 - A Turkish minister yesterday said he was
in favor of allowing a controversial movie on the mass killings of
Armenians under the Ottoman Empire to be screened in the country,
but played it down as "ridiculous propaganda," Anatolia news agency
reported.
Culture and Tourism Minister Erkan Mumcu said he welcomed a decision by
a cinema watchdog to allow the movie "Ararat" by Canadian director Atom
Egoyan, who is of Armenian descent, to be shown in Turkish theatres.
"If some people are curious, they can go and see it... According to
information I have... it is a film which is very much didactic and
can even be described as ridiculous propaganda," Mumcu said in the
southern town of Kemer, according to Anatolia.
The massacres of Armenians during World War I is one of the most
controversial episodes in Turkish history. The mass-selling daily
Hurriyet Saturday quoted Mumcu as saying that "one or two scenes of
offensive quality" had been censored in the film, which is expected
to hit the screens in mid-January.
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