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    DERVISHES' DANCE ON THE CHRIST'S IMAGE
    Marina Grigoryan "Golos Armenii" (The Voice Of Armenia)

    DeFacto Agency, Armenia
    June 1 2006

    Turkish Advertisement with Religious-Political Implication The
    shots from the Turkish video clip have been "walking" by the World
    Network three days and have already been titled "Dervishes' Dance
    on the Christ's Image". According to the Yerkramas newspaper of the
    Russian Armenians, in St. Petersburg the Armenian activists are going
    to institute legal proceedings against a Turkish agency circulating
    cadres, which are offensive for Christians: the Christian cultural
    monuments on the territory of modern Turkey are presented as cities
    that have sunk, where only mermaids swim, while the image of Jesus
    Christ has turned into a dance hall.

    Such provocative video clips can hardly be considered just a commercial
    subterfuge. Too little time has elapsed since a scandal caused by
    Danish caricatures depicting the Prophet Muhammad, so one is inclined
    to believe in obvious premeditation of the step undertaken by Turks
    to artificially foment interreligious passions.

    Turkey, which is doing its best to position itself as a secular
    state that observes ethnical minorities' rights, evidently cannot be
    considered a civilized country, for even commercial interests are
    unable to conceal political and expansionist ones. The Christian
    cultural monuments, on which the heirs of nomads perform ritual
    dances, testify to the fact that the very nomads that have arrogated
    to themselves the invaluable monuments of the world history pretending
    to be the region's autochthon population are unworthy of such legacy
    and can just spoil and destroy it. It is quite symbolic that Armenians
    have been the first to make those who committed sacrilege responsible
    via litigation - without mentioning other factors, the wound and pain
    of the deprivation of thousands of the Jugha khachkars destroyed by
    Turkish vandals is still with us. And yet, if political interests
    hampered the Christian world's consolidation in the issue referring
    to khachkars, perhaps, this time the blasphemous cadres will make
    Christians rebuff the provocateurs stirring up interreligious rows and
    setting the representatives of various confessions against each other?
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