Some Forces in Turkey Seem to Try to Inflame Inter-Religious Scandal

PanARMENIAN.Net - The clothes of people in a TV advertisement of Turkey corresponds to that of dervishes of Mavlavi Turkish order. According to newspaper of Armenians of Russia Yerkramas, the official response of Director of State Museum of History of Religion Kuchinsky to the request of St. Petersburg Lawyer College of Naryshkins. After 1925 activities of dervish orders was banned in Turkey and zikr dance of dervishes, which symbolizes movement of spheres of the universe was preserved only as an element of people's art.



We remind that a group of Armenian activists in St. Petersburg laid a suit against a TV channel, which broadcast an advertisement. The 22nd channel, which demonstrated Christian culture monuments that are on the territory of modern Turkey, presented these as sunken cities, where mermaids swim, while Turkish dervishes dance on Christ's image. The goal of the advertisement is to attract tourists in Turkey.



Experts' conclusion says that "fragments of the video, where dervishes dance on the nimbus of Jesus Christ humiliate Christians." This conclusion was made by a judicial expertise body of the Russian Ministry of Justice. One of Armenian activists, Artak Aleksanyan, is outraged by Turkey inviting guests "by demonstrating architectural monuments, it gained by extermination of neighbors and seizing territories." Against the background of the latest scandal over cartoons of Muhammad prophet in European newspapers, an impression is formed that some forces in Turkey are trying to artificially inflame an inter-religious scandal, Aleksanyan said.