TURKISH ORGANIZATIONS TO SEND PROTESTS TO SYLVESTER STALLONE

PanARMENIAN.Net
26.12.2006 13:27 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish organizations are going to send protest
letters to American movie actor Sylvester Stallone who intends to
screen Franz Werfel’s ‘The 40 Days of Musa Dagh’. As Turkish Milliyet
reports, Savaş Egilmez, the chairman of the so-called ‘Association
on struggle against Armenian Genocide ackowledgement’ stated that
"movies are often used for propagandistic goals and this time the
Armenians also are going to use such an opportunity. Austrian writer,
a Jew by descent Franz Werfel has written this novel in 1933. It is
full of lie since the author wrote it after talking to the Armenians
with nationalistic and radical views," Egilmez claims. In his words,
"it is necessary to take appropriate measures till the start of shoots,
since after everything has already began it will be more difficult. "We
have already sent appropriate documents about the events of those
days to the producers of the film. Our compatriots will assist us to
urge the producers not to shoot the film," he underlined.

It’s worth reminding that Sylvester Stallone declared about his
intentions to shoot a film about heroic defense of Musa Dagh in
1915 in Ottoman Empire on the bases of ‘The 40 Days of Musa Dagh’
book. Alongside, he stated that Ankara near 85 years carries out a
denial policy of the Armenian Genocide, reports the Armenian Public
Television.