MAJORITY OF TELEVISION VIEWERS IN TURKEY IS FOR SHOWING ATOM EGOYAN’S FILM “ARARAT”

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Mar 30 2006

ISTANBUL, MARCH 30, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Possibly, the
“Canal-Turk” Turkish TV channel will show Canadian film director
Atom Egoyan’s film “Ararat”. According to the “Marmara” daily of
Istanbul, the “Canal-Turk’s” management conducted a survey among the
TV viewers. Since March 26, 25 thousand TV viewers sent messages by
mobile phones, saying that they are not against the showing of the
film and only 3 thousand viewers were against it. To recap, formerly
the shooting of the film had raised a wave of protest in Turkey. A
new wave of protest rose in 2003 when the Turkish organization on
film production bought the film for the purpose of showing it in
the country but “Ararat” was not shown in Turkey as a result of
counteraction by the authorities and chauvinistic parties.