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  • ISTANBUL: Turkish actors turn down role depicting Dink's life

    Today's Zaman, Turkey
    July 30 2014

    Turkish actors turn down role depicting Dink's life


    German-Turkish filmmaker Fatih Akın, known for the films `Soul
    Kitchen," `Head-On' and, most recently, `The Cut,' has complained
    that no Turkish actor has accepted his offer of the lead role in a
    movie depicting the life of murdered Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant
    Dink.

    According to the report by Agos daily, the award-winning Akın has
    written a script depicting the life of Agos newspaper editor-in-chief
    Hrant Dink, who was shot in broad daylight on Jan. 19, 2007 outside
    his newspaper's offices by a neo-nationalist teenager.

    Akın has had to postpone the project because Turkish actors have
    turned down a role in the movie as they found the script `tough.'

    Complaining that he failed to convince the actors he had met so far to
    star in the film, Akın said that -- while penning the script -- he was
    inspired by Dink's 12 articles previously published by the Agos daily.

    Akın told the Agos daily that he has been forced to freeze the movie
    project after it was turned down by several Turkish actors, adding: "I
    have attached great importance the film being a 'Turkish movie.'
    Apparently, the time is not yet ripe to shoot a film concerning the
    life of Dink. His inspiring articles regarding the 1915 events [a date
    marking the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks] are
    fascinating. After I read his articles I carried out in-depth research
    on the issue.'

    http://www.todayszaman.com/national/news-354223-turkish-actors-turn-down-role-depicting-dinks-life.html

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