Turkey could resurrect the silver screen, says Paradigm president
22 January 2007
As major productions become more and more expensive and bureaucratic within large film companies, and entertainment seeks cheap and effective outlets such as Reality TV and the Web, President of Paradigm International Norman Aladjem argued that foreign enterprises could resurrect the moribund “middle class” of the cinema industry. Creating a solid platform and infrastructure in Turkey, he argues, is essential for this.

Two further projects are still awaiting confirmation. One will be about Mevlana, the founder of the legendary Sufi order; talks are ongoing with the mayor of Konya, the city Mevlana selected as his spiritual center. The other one is about Behiç Erkin, Turkey's ambassador to Paris during World War II, said to have saved as many as 15,000 Jews from deportation. George Clooney is considering this role.

The Clooney Project

Details about the Project and a veiled hero Behic Erkin

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Clooney is a liberal. Very liberal as his reputation goes. You won't find him on the side of the Turks, IMO.

I couldn't understand the relation, project is about Behic Erkin, Turkish ambassador to Paris in WW2 which was a disabled man and saved 20.000 lives as giving them diplomatic immunity and turkish passport with a great effort and struggle, He was also the owner of German Iron Cross, French Legion D'honoer, Turkish Medal of Independence war and founder of Turkish Railways as a disabled man .. it could be an oscar nominated project.. Its not about taking side but keeping of a Great man's memoires alive...

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The link you posted actually looks at this "taking sides."

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The very article makes this not about the greatness of one man, but couches this as a counterattack in the Armenian vs Turk struggle over the genocide question.

I just call it the way I see it, man.


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I am also against supporting this as just a counterattack , it is an disrecpetful act against his memoir, The man deserve a big reputation without being a political tool... And I believe and hope if the project become alive, his name would become above such politics....

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The consideration to make a film of this man's life obviously has nothing to do with the Armenians. The newspaper chose that direction strictly to underline the irony. In other words, because the Armenian genocide propaganda is so prevalent and widely accepted, equating Turks with Nazis, what the newspaper was trying to convey was the true way of the Turks, that of humanitarians; their tolerance was recognized even by their enemies, for centuries. The so-called Armenian genocide is a politicized invention, supported by hearsay and forgeries, but no real facts.

Some background on Erkin from an outstanding scholar, shedding greater light as well between the relationship of Turks and Jews:
TURKEY AND THE JEWS OF EUROPE DURING WORLD WAR II

That's your opinion.

The true way of Turks = shielding Armenians from ethnic cleansing by other Turks, thus the minority who were good are the only ones who count as Turks? That's not logical.

Rubbish. The Turks put the Armenians on a death march where they perished along the way by the hundreds of thousands. That's genocide.


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