STALLONE TO DIRECT MOVIE ABOUT ARMENIAN ‘GENOCIDE’?
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18/01/2007 17:11
SYLVESTER STALLONE has sparked controversy by plotting to direct a
film adaptation of controversial book THE FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH,
which describes the alleged Turkish massacre of its Armenian community
in 1915. The book by Austrian author FRANZ WERFEL is controversial in
Turkey, where the claimed genocide has never been wholly accepted
as a historical fact. And the Association On Struggle Against
Armenian Genocide Acknowledgement is urging Stallone not to make
the film. Chairman SAVAS EGILMEZ fumes, "The book is full of lies,
since the author got his information from nationalist and radical
Armenians. We have already sent necessary documents about the mentioned
days to the producer of the film. Our allies will urge the producer
not to produce the film."
Stallone says the film would be "an epic about the complete destruction
of a civilisation. (But) talk about a political hot potato. The Turks
have been killing that subject for 85 years."