Anoushik Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 (AINA) -- Editor's note: Sylvester Stallone is making a film about the Turkish genocide of Armenians in World War One. So, is it official? Stallone is really going to make the film? It's one thing to express the desire to do something and another to actually do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 It seems so: Mt. Musa Armenians express concern over Stallone movie The only Armenian village in Turkey, Vakıflı in Hatay province, has expressed concerns over the destruction the peace and tolerance that dominate their lives because of a proposed movie on the so-called Armenian genocide. American actor Sylvestor Stallone recently announced plans to make a movie based on the book "The Forty Days of Musa Dag" written by Austrian Franz Werfel in 1933. He wants to film the movie at Mt. Musa, which rises next to Vakıflı. "We will only approve the plan if the movie underlines the environment of peace and tolerance in which we live. But if it undermines that, we are against this movie," Vakıflı local administrator Berç Kartun said as he expressed conditional approval. Kartun added that they have lived at Musa Dagh in peace and tolerance for centuries. "The theme of the movie belongs here -- right where we live. Mt. Musa is next to us. It is all right for us if someone wants to make a movie here about the book 'The Forty Days of Musa Dag.' There are also beautiful things in that book. If those things will be used without starting a controversy, the movie will be welcome. The movie should tell about the tolerance here. Then it will be beneficial for introduction of Turkey, our village and Hatay. People should come and see the mountain and our life here. Nobody has the right to ruin our peace," he said. 'The Forty Days of Musa Dagh' The book is about the forced emigration of Anatolian Armenians in 1915, with a group of them taking shelter on Mt. Musa, south of İskenderun. They clashed with Ottoman soldiers in Hatay and were taken to Egyptian refugee camps by French ships. 10.02.2007 MEHMET DENER HATAY http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar...7&bolum=101 These "Musa Dagh Armenians" aren't the ones who fought, they're the ones who sat and watched when the rest of the Armenians were fighting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Kartun added that they have lived at Musa Dagh in peace and tolerance for centuries. Then where is the 'ian' of your name, why was it removed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accelerated Posted February 10, 2007 Report Share Posted February 10, 2007 ...and more importantly, where are all your Armenian neighbours? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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