Pan Armenian News

TIME US EDITION SPREAD FILM DENYING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

06.06.2005 05:38

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A DVD attached to latest number of Time edition published
in US denies the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey at the beginning of
last century. The DVD recorded in Turkey informs that the `events of 1915 in
Turkey was not genocide but exile and the Turkish authorities provided the
Armenians with the daily meal and often they were fed better than the
Turkish escort.’ The film authors presented former Minister of Interior
Talaat Pasha as a national hero. Azerbaijani representative in the film
assures that Armenians, who once annihilated Turks, are annihilating Azeris
at present. The film tells that `Armenians fought for Hitler and then
committed terrorist acts against Turkish diplomats.’ Head of the Turkish
Chamber of Commerce and Industry Sinan Aygun informed that the film was shot
thanks to $1 million collected as donation and the shooting lasted for half
a year. This week 500 000 Europeans will watch the film, IA Regnum reports.