ACTRESS PELIN BATU USES THE WORD "G" ON TV
By Jean Eckian
AZG Armenian Daily
26/08/2009
Armenian Genocide
On 10 May, during the show "Scenes of History," by Murat Bardakci
on Haberturk TV, and one flap was devoted to the development of
Armenian-Turkish relations today, the famous and beautiful Turkish
actress, Pelin Batu, has not taken any detours to declare that "the
events of 1915, it was a Genocide."
The young woman spoke to the French, who hate the hypocrisy, has
surprised the world by this statement repeated several times live, and
especially Ýnal Pelin, his own father, former ambassador to Italy. A
man now retired, having worked nearly 40 years at the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, criticizing France in its statements and fiercely
opposed to the Armenian claims.
Unexpected words of the young woman has caused waves of protest
among the participants of the show and viewers accusing him, among
other things, to wear around his neck a chain with the pendant is a
representation of a grenade … the symbolic Armenian fruit.
Thus, in the light of the events of 1915, and according to the
journalist and writer Murat Bardakci himself editor of "Black Book"
of Talaat Pasha, the latter to indicate the actress, in Turkey using
the phrase "alleged genocide" to refer to the events of 1915. What
Pelin Batu reply to the caller that she had been in Armenia, where
she met with priests and scholars. She was expressing her own point of
view with regard to the great tragedy that occurred in 1915. But Murat
Bardakci returning to the attack, implicitly lead actress in the field
of terrorism by recalling the episode of the actions of the "Asala"
at which Turkish diplomats were murdered. "At that time my father was
diplomat, I was very young and I lived in fear of losing. His best
friend was killed and I went to school in armored car, but this does
not mean that I must be filled with animosity towards the Armenians,
"she said. Adding in an interview later with his trip to Armenia:
"They are like us, they look to the future. We will do great things
together. "
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
