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Silly Turkey, don't they realize all this suing and banning nonsense just gives more publicity to the movie and, as a result, the Genocide itself?

 

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TURKEY PLANS TO SUE CANADIAN MOVIE DIRECTOR

 

ArmenPress News Agency

Nov 28 2001

 

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 28, ARMENPRESS The Turkish government intends

to institute legal proceedings against "propagandizing hatred and

defaming Turkish people", in against a Canadian-Armenian well-known

film director Atom Egoyan.

 

According to the Turkish Star daily, Atom Egoyan's new film

'Ararat', describing the Armenian Genocide, raised much noise.

 

As the daily notes, it was impossible to prevent the shooting of

the film, financed by the Miramax Film Company, by any legal means,

and it is expected to be shown in May. According to Star, after

showing the film in France, Canada and USA the Turkish authorities

will institute legal proceedings, aiming to ban showing the film.

 

It should be mentioned that Turkey will not be satisfied with

legal claims only, it has already called on all the world Turkish

organizations to take active measures to prevent the film shooting

and ban its showing.

 

According to Star, Turkey in its turn will start shooting its own

film, describing the "violences" of Armenian and Russian army in Van

and Kars in 1915-1919.

 

Egoyan intends to present this film to Oscar Prize, and show the

first night at Cannes film festival. Star daily is much concerned

about a number of scenes, which show atrocities of Turks towards

Armenians in those years.

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Voila mon ami montrealais: Grey Wolves go to the movies.

 

MHP's Cakar blames Karakoyunlu for being, a 'Traitor'

 

Turkish Daily News

Nov 28 2001

 

Parliamentary Administrative Chairman Ahmet Cakar of the Nationalist

Movement Party (MHP) blamed State Minister Yilmaz Karakoyunlu and

the Turkish Radio and Television Institute (TRT) Chairman Yucel Yener

for being, "Traitors."

 

Cakar during a press conference he held in Parliament on Tuesday

harshly reacted against TRT for broadcasting a Turkish movie entitled,

"Salkim Hanimin Taneleri" [The Necklaces of Miss Salkim].

 

Cakar claimed that this movie gave anti-Turks the opportunity to

blame the government and it included some scenes that are in contrast

with the state's official thesis against Armenian genocide allegations.

 

"They including Yener involved in treason," Cakar said.

 

Yilmaz Karakoyunlu is the author of the "Salkim Hanimin Taneleri"

and he portrays the lives of non-muslim minorities who migrated to

Erzurum's Askale province in the 1940s.

 

Cakar said that a scene from the movie shows a Turkish officer raping

an Armenian woman and asked how state-run television can broadcast

such scenes.

 

"This scene insults Turkish officers and they try to show our officers

as a indecent people. As a Turkish nationalists, it is not possible

for us to accept it," Cakar said.

 

Meanwhile, Karakoyunlu reacted to Cakar's move calling him a traitor.

 

"I believe that Cakar didn't read the book, even if he read it before,

he couldn't understand it," State Minister Karakoyunlu said.

 

Karakoyunlu said that Cakar has no idea about what has been lived

and when it happened.

 

"I lived these things. I wrote my impressions and observations,"

Karakoyunlu stated.

 

Ankara - TDN Parliament Bureau

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I had watched the movie in question - in fact, the very session they were talking about, that of its broadcast on TRT...

 

A couple of days later, I posted about it on my forum, and I reposted it at Middle East Forum yesterday:

http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/messag...geid=1007043296

 

Odd that it has just surfaced now... The date of my original post is October 14th... It's been over a month and a half! Now I know why our bureaucracy is slow to work... Damn infiltrated MHP. http://www.network54.com/images/tongue.gif

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Hm... Perhaps you can just put on some fur to pass off as one... But then, it is bear furs that are ideal for sitting in front of the fireplace.

What's the need? I was actually expecting a surprise birthday cake a coupla weeks back, with you popping out of it... Grey Cake... LOLOLOL...

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Thankeeeeeee!
And please quit callin' me Ms. Rose, guys! I prefer the friendly and intimate "Thorny"!



Happy Birthday !
But we'll keep calling you Ms. Rose. What is this thorny-by-iself nonsense ?
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"According to Star, Turkey in its turn will start shooting its own

film, describing the "violences" of Armenian and Russian army in Van

and Kars in 1915-1919."

sure turkey would like to have talat *****, jemal and enver in this move, after all they are turkeys national heroes if im not mustering.

who will play the roles of this cowards, oh will money can bye and can resolve many of the problems, after all turkey has enough $$$ to do this and have no better place to spend, there is no starving kids in turkey, no unemployment problems to worry, nor turkey needs to supports the millions of Turkish citizens that need help to survive in it's booming economy . after all turkey is a super power in this world.

 

I can only picture this in my mind, blockbuster move -= violences =- in US cinemas, millions of Americans will be standing in lines to get hold of a ticket, to see haw Armenians and Russians are massacring turks, raping women and children, rubbing whatever the valuables they had on them, talyat and jemal war trying to save women and children, enver (played by Shaban ) was offering much needed comfort and turkish coffee to the starving.

-= end of the movie =- - enver jemal and tiylat are on the front of the yacht (titanic stile After all each auction movie needs a romantic seen) the yacht is crossing the see of blood, millions of human parts flooding in the see kids and elderly, oh hold on this one is a life, enver *****- ( played by zeqi myuren) "jemal get your yataran finish that Armenian", jemal - "no not this one, this is the last one and we are saving it for Hitler's museum, remember he has asked for it " only one Armenian should be left, and only in the museum" - talyat - man shut the hell up now the world is going to know what we did to Armenians, after all we only killed close to 2 million Armenians, - enver -"do not worry no one will know, even if they do no one is going to do anything"

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Originally posted by MosJan:
"According to Star, Turkey in its turn will start shooting its own
film, describing the "violences" of Armenian and Russian army in Van
and Kars in 1915-1919."
sure turkey would like to have talat *****, jemal and enver in this move, after all they are turkeys national heroes if im not mustering.
who will play the roles of this cowards, oh will money can bye and can resolve many of the problems, after all turkey has enough $$$ to do this and have no better place to spend, there is no starving kids in turkey, no unemployment problems to worry, nor turkey needs to supports the millions of Turkish citizens that need help to survive in it's booming economy . after all turkey is a super power in this world.

I can only picture this in my mind, blockbuster move -= violences =- in US cinemas, millions of Americans will be standing in lines to get hold of a ticket, to see haw Armenians and Russians are massacring turks, raping women and children, rubbing whatever the valuables they had on them, talyat and jemal war trying to save women and children, enver (played by Shaban ) was offering much needed comfort and turkish coffee to the starving.
-= end of the movie =- - enver jemal and tiylat are on the front of the yacht (titanic stile After all each auction movie needs a romantic seen) the yacht is crossing the see of blood, millions of human parts flooding in the see kids and elderly, oh hold on this one is a life, enver *****- ( played by zeqi myuren) "jemal get your yataran finish that Armenian", jemal - "no not this one, this is the last one and we are saving it for Hitler's museum, remember he has asked for it " only one Armenian should be left, and only in the museum" - talyat - man shut the hell up now the world is going to know what we did to Armenians, after all we only killed close to 2 million Armenians, - enver -"do not worry no one will know, even if they do no one is going to do anything"



You mean Soghomon Tehlirian doesn't make an appearance? But that's the best part.
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