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Turkey to become first Muslim nation to show Holocaust film
(AFP) - 8 hours ago
ANKARA - Turkish public television will show an epic French
documentary about the Holocaust, the first broadcast of its kind by
national media in a Muslim state, it was announced Wednesday.
A spokesman for Turkish public television TRT said the 1985 film
"Shoah" would be shown on one of the network's 14 channels, but did
not say when.
The director of nine-hour-plus documentary, Claude Lanzmann, called
the Turkish move historic.
"We should acknowledge the courage and determination of the Turks,"
said Lanzmann, who spent 11 years working on the documentary. "Turkey
is a country people don't know and understand very badly."
Turkey's broadcast of the film is the culmination of work by the
Aladdin Project, a Paris-based group which tries to improve
Jewish-Muslim relations.
The group said in a statement the film would be shown Thursday, the
day before International Holocaust Remembrance Day, adding that it had
never before been shown in its entirety in a Muslim country.
Consisting largely of Holocaust-survivor interviews, the film examines
the killing of European Jews in Nazi death camps during World War II.
Its broadcast comes at a sensitive time in Turkey's international relations.
Ankara hopes to eventually join the European Union, but it is
embroiled in a spat with Paris over the French senate's approval of a
law making it a crime to deny that the mass killing of Armenians by
Ottoman forces in World War II was genocide.
Ankara's relations with Israel were damaged in 2010 after Israeli
commandoes stormed a Turkish aid ship bound for the Gaza Strip in an
operation that led to the deaths of nine Turkish activists.
Turkey to become first Muslim nation to show Holocaust film
(AFP) - 8 hours ago
ANKARA - Turkish public television will show an epic French
documentary about the Holocaust, the first broadcast of its kind by
national media in a Muslim state, it was announced Wednesday.
A spokesman for Turkish public television TRT said the 1985 film
"Shoah" would be shown on one of the network's 14 channels, but did
not say when.
The director of nine-hour-plus documentary, Claude Lanzmann, called
the Turkish move historic.
"We should acknowledge the courage and determination of the Turks,"
said Lanzmann, who spent 11 years working on the documentary. "Turkey
is a country people don't know and understand very badly."
Turkey's broadcast of the film is the culmination of work by the
Aladdin Project, a Paris-based group which tries to improve
Jewish-Muslim relations.
The group said in a statement the film would be shown Thursday, the
day before International Holocaust Remembrance Day, adding that it had
never before been shown in its entirety in a Muslim country.
Consisting largely of Holocaust-survivor interviews, the film examines
the killing of European Jews in Nazi death camps during World War II.
Its broadcast comes at a sensitive time in Turkey's international relations.
Ankara hopes to eventually join the European Union, but it is
embroiled in a spat with Paris over the French senate's approval of a
law making it a crime to deny that the mass killing of Armenians by
Ottoman forces in World War II was genocide.
Ankara's relations with Israel were damaged in 2010 after Israeli
commandoes stormed a Turkish aid ship bound for the Gaza Strip in an
operation that led to the deaths of nine Turkish activists.