This documentary follows the scholar Sarafian as he responds to the turkish parlamentary accusations of the Blue Book being fabrications and propoganda.
The documentary does a very good job of showing the different aspects of turkish denialism and the glaring removal of everything connected to the Armenians who lived in the land.
We get to see the young Turkish academian who takes great offense at Sarafians book, calling him agent of CIA, FBI and such other nonsense. How he verges on threatening Sarafian (stating it is an insult to turkey which is a prison able offense). This attitude carries the more weight when knowing it is far from being a fringe attitude. Not long after this the Armenian journalist Grant Dink was shot in Istanbul by nationalists who also had scholars on their hitlist.
And then we also get to see how some people (i think they were journalists) actually are open to engaging with the evidence.
This is a somber documentary with no exuberance or unverified claims.
The documentary does a very good job of showing the different aspects of turkish denialism and the glaring removal of everything connected to the Armenians who lived in the land.
We get to see the young Turkish academian who takes great offense at Sarafians book, calling him agent of CIA, FBI and such other nonsense. How he verges on threatening Sarafian (stating it is an insult to turkey which is a prison able offense). This attitude carries the more weight when knowing it is far from being a fringe attitude. Not long after this the Armenian journalist Grant Dink was shot in Istanbul by nationalists who also had scholars on their hitlist.
And then we also get to see how some people (i think they were journalists) actually are open to engaging with the evidence.
This is a somber documentary with no exuberance or unverified claims.
