ANKARA ROUTS SO-CALLED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE FILM
By Suleyman Kurt, Ankara
Zaman Online, Turkey
March 15 2006
Ankara is annoyed over a film about so-called Armenian Genocide
allegations developed by Eurimages, an organization that promotes
common art forms and works in affiliation with the European Council.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan took the initiative with Italian
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s authority, and Foreign Minister
Abdullah Gul said the efforts of the Turkish administration in
opposition to the film continue.
Diplomatic sources say the attempts made so far in relation to the
Italian Director’s film, “The farm of the skylarks,” have ended in
vain. The director was called to the Foreign Ministry, but he refused
to give up his ideas of support in the film. Italian Prime Minister
Berlusconi wrote a letter to the director asking him “not to present
Turks negatively.”
Minister Gul was reminded of the interpretations on the change in
the US Jewish Lobby’s positive attitudes in relation to the “Armenian
Genocide Allegations” after the HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement)
visit to Ankara. “They talked to us in a different way, “Gul responded,
“Ask them.”