repulsewarrior wrote:Thanks again, Lordo, for the link to "Voice of Blood 2"; hardly "Turkish" propaganda, yet for "Greeks" it is described as such.
...i can't help but think of the struggle the People of America suffered (and still suffer), which ten years before (with men hung from trees) was not much different, so Black and White.
Patriots like now, existed. It is a question of values, and in the broadest sense the Principles they/we can all agree are universal. (Indeed, a Modern concept, since 1789 (read:1776), and the UN's establishment since then).
...it is a never ending battle, such is the fight against Ignorance: the fear of those too selfish to overcome their own fears finding in hatred comfort; divided as they/we are who then is left among them/us to defend reason but the few?
And who are these people, not "Them"; not having a dogma "belonging" to not one or the other: why real Patriots seem so few, "being" neither.
...but i am hopeful, and such a documentary only confirms that these hopes are shared, as a loving people, even among those of us who have suffered the most.
I can only wish to have your hopes but I am arealist. The incident in the film took part in 1974. The maker of the film lost his jobe and nobody else would hire him so he had to leave for a while. Kizilyurek years later simply mentined the incident on a live TC program and was taken of the air.
So you see the ignorance is not only alive and well but imbedded in the education system.
To compare like for like. There was a film made called "our wall", which was actually shown on TV in the north when Talat was President. The head of the broadcasting was removed from the station but not on the night of the show but much later and another difference was he was not driven out of the country, he continued to work in the north and had a successful career in Education and broadcasting world. He switched to a private broadcasting company instead.
When such ignorence is not even discussed openly, we have no hopw of changing things.Especially when the destroyers of RoC are paraded on the media as heros and streets are named after them.
Don't worry it is the same in the north except Muftu is not incharge of education only one hour a week religous lesson children get in some years not all.