TURKISH-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION REACTS TO US TV’S BROADCAST ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

armradio.am
08.03.2010 17:24

The senior official of a Turkish-American association said on Sunday
that leading US TV channel CNN should be protested for its recent
broadcast on the incidents of 1915.

CNN, which broadcasted a program titled "Scream Bloody Murder"
in December 2008, has recently re-run the production which assesses
incidents such as the Holocaust, deceased Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s
chemical attack against Iraqi Kurds, as well as the incidents that
had taken place in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfour.

The program, presented by US journalist Christian Amanpour, briefly
points to the incidents of 1915 as well, and tells that "Christian
Armenian citizens were killed and forced to migrate, and consequently,
1 million Armenian people died at the time."

Releasing a statement on CNN’s program, Ali Cınar, vice president
of the Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA), said that
the timing of the broadcast was significant, and called on everybody
to protest the TV channel immediately.

Noting that CNN’s broadcast would harm Turkish-US relations, Cınar
said associating the incidents of 1915 with the Holocaust and with
what had happened in Cambodia, Rwanda, Iraq and Darfour was a "major
ignorance."

Cınar also said that the Turkish-American community would continue
to react against the unilateral stance displayed by the US media on
such matter.