ATOM EGOYAN´S ARARAT TO BE SCREENED IN TURKEY

ANKARA, MARCH 30, ARMENPRESS: Turkish CanalTurk will screen a film by Canadian Armenian director Atom Egoyan-Ararat- which is about the 1915 Armenian genocide. Before making this decision the company had conducted a survey among 21,000 Turks. Some 18,000 said they would like to see the film.

The Turkish daily Milliyet writes that a Turkish company that wanted to screen the film in Turkey a couple of years ago had to revise its decision after receiving threats from a youth extremist organization. The CanalTurk, however, has cut off some scenes depicting massacres of Armenians by Turkish soldiers.