IF SPIELBERG PRODUCES FILM ON GENOCIDE … - SABAH

The Turkish newspaper Sabah has published an article providing a forecast of possible developments in case world-famous film director and producer Steven Spielberg produces a film about the Armenian Genocide. The author of the article, Mevlut Tezel, calls for boycotting Spielberg's films in case he manages to bring his plan to life. It comes after the Turkish media published reports saying that Spielberg is cooperating with producer Steven Zalian to realize his project and has to that end started negotiations with representatives of Armenia's National Cinema Center. "We won't be able to recall the ambassador so we must boycott Spielberg's films," he says. "We must boycott endlessly in case Spielberg and script-writer Steven Zalian produce the film, following the example of Schindler's Life [which is about the Jewish Holocaust]." According to the Turkish journalist, the film, if produced, will cause of all kinds of debates devoted to the Genocide to go beyond the framework of political discussions, reducing the issue to the public domain. "Even the ignorant not knowing Turkey's place on the world map will start thinking that we have committed the Genocide," Tozel says, adding that the film's negative impact would be 100 times stronger than that of Midnight Express (which tells about the unlawfulness in Turkish prisons and the judiciary ) Speaking to Tert.am, Ruzan Bagratuni, a spokesperson for the National Cinema Center, dismissed the reports that they have started negotiations with Spielberg. "There is nothing of the kind," she said. "A letter was earlier sent to Spielberg from Armenia but the process was frozen."

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