SOME FORCES IN TURKEY SEEM TO TRY TO INFLAME INTER-RELIGIOUS SCANDAL
PanARMENIAN.Net
20.06.2006 16:11 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The clothes of people in a TV advertisement of Turkey
corresponds to that of dervishes of Mavlavi Turkish order. According
to newspaper of Armenians of Russia Yerkramas, the official response
of Director of State Museum of History of Religion Kuchinsky to the
request of St. Petersburg Lawyer College of Naryshkins. After 1925
activities of dervish orders was banned in Turkey and zikr dance of
dervishes, which symbolizes movement of spheres of the universe was
preserved only as an element of people’s art.
We remind that a group of Armenian activists in St. Petersburg laid a
suit against a TV channel, which broadcast an advertisement. The 22nd
channel, which demonstrated Christian culture monuments that are on
the territory of modern Turkey, presented these as sunken cities,
where mermaids swim, while Turkish dervishes dance on Christ’s
image. The goal of the advertisement is to attract tourists in Turkey.
Experts’ conclusion says that "fragments of the video, where dervishes
dance on the nimbus of Jesus Christ humiliate Christians." This
conclusion was made by a judicial expertise body of the Russian
Ministry of Justice. One of Armenian activists, Artak Aleksanyan, is
outraged by Turkey inviting guests "by demonstrating architectural
monuments, it gained by extermination of neighbors and seizing
territories."
Against the background of the latest scandal over cartoons of Muhammad
prophet in European newspapers, an impression is formed that some
forces in Turkey are trying to artificially inflame an inter-religious
scandal, Aleksanyan said.