Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Middle East Times-Turkish television to air film on Armenian killings

"Turkish television to air film on Armenian killings
April 12, 2006

ANKARA -- A private television station will broadcast a controversial movie on the massacres of Armenians during World War I for the first time in Turkey where the subject still arouses nationalist feelings, a spokesman for the channel said on Wednesday.

Kanalturk decided to show Ararat by Canadian director Atom Egoyan, an ethnic Armenian, after a survey of viewers revealed that 72 percent of the participants wanted to see the film, the spokesman said. "

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