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    TURKISH EMBASSY IN MEXICO CENSORS FILM FESTIVAL ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    Monday, April 20th, 2015

    http://asbarez.com/134265/turkish-embassy-in-mexico-censors-film-festival-on-armenian-genocide/

    An exhibit on the Armenian Genocide in Mexico City's Memory and
    Tolerance Museum. (Photo: Agencia Prensa Armenia)

    MEXICO CITY (Agencia Prensa Armenia)--The Turkish Embassy in Mexico
    managed to suspend a film festival at the Museo Nacional de las
    Culturas in Mexico City through strong pressures on various state
    and government authorities.

    The film festival was going to feature movies like "Grandma's Tattoos,"
    "The Lark Farm," "The Cut," "Screamers," and "Ararat," among others.

    "After one hundred years of the Armenian Genocide, they once again
    seek to silence the word. The current Turkish government tries by all
    means to prevent the use of the word genocide," said Professor Carlos
    Antaramian at the opening of an exhibition, "Armenia, an open wound,"
    held in the Memory and Tolerance Museum.

    The Mexican Foreign Ministry tried to prevent the use of the word
    "genocide" in other activities as well, such as a concert dedicated to
    the victims of the Armenian Genocide in Bellas Artes, after pressure
    from Turkish diplomats.

    "The Mexican government not only does not recognize the Armenian
    Genocide, but in recent days a very powerful hand inside the government
    has shown a particular interest in silencing the commemoration of the
    Genocide which was organized by the Armenian community in Mexico. The
    word remains muted in this 2015," said Antaramian.


    From: Baghdasarian
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