March 8, 2010 - 16:25 AMT
Turkish-American association reacts to CNN broadcast about Genocides

On March 7 CNN showed Scream Bloody Murder, a documentary about Genocides prepared by a known TV journalist, Christian Amanpour. The author tells about the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, the Genocide in Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, as well as the massacres of Kurds during Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq.

Releasing a statement on CNN's program, Ali Cinar, vice president of the Assembly of Turkish American Associations -ATAA, said that the timing of the broadcast was significant, and called on everybody to protest the TV channel immediately.

Cinar said "US TV channels' displaying a unilateral stance with the Armenian Diaspora's financial support did not comply with objectivity and journalistic ethics".

Noting that CNN's broadcast would harm Turkish-US relations, Cinar said associating the incidents of 1915 with the Holocaust and with what had happened in Cambodia, Rwanda, Iraq and Darfour was a "major ignorance".

Cinar also said that the Turkish-American community would continue to react against the unilateral stance displayed by the US media on such matter, the Anatolia News Agency reported.