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The premiere of the movie "Çiçero", which was directed by Serdar Akar and features a story of espionage that took place in the Second World War (1939-1945), was held in İstanbul on January 16. On the red carpet, there were baby dolls that were piled upon each other.
The pictures showing the guests passing by the 'mise-en-scene' of a concentration camp on the premiere, which was held shortly before the January 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day, were denounced by minorities in Turkey as well as various social media users.
Molinas: An inconceivable ignorance
Editor-in-Chief of Şalom newspaper İvo Molinas shared a message on Twitter and said, "Look at the premiere of the Çiçero movie. How will we depict this inconceivable ignorance, this inconceivable unawareness?"
Çok çirkin, saygısızca... bi de dalga geçer gibi 27 Ocak haftasında https://t.co/qtRPKICxhB
— Karel Valansi (@karelvalansi) 30 Ocak 2019
Karel Valansi from Şalom newspaper also said on Twitter,
"It is repugnant, disrespectful... And, to top it all, as if they were trying to ridicule, on the week of January 27..."
"What were they thinking?"
Louis Fishman, an expert on Turkey and Middle East from Brooklyn University, also wrote on Twitter:
"Wow, just wow: Cicero, a new Turkish movie about WWII has a screening and at its opening gala, a makeshift concentration camp is set up among the party goers. This just days after International Holocaust Remembrance Day. What the hell were they thinking?"
Wow, just wow: Cicero, a new Turkish movie about WWII has a screening and at its opening gala, a makeshift concentration camp is set up among the party goers. This just days after International Holocaust Remembrance Day. What the hell were they thinking? (photo via @basyazar) pic.twitter.com/NZVhZU0RzJ
— Louis Fishman (@Istanbultelaviv) 30 Ocak 2019
Çiçero filminin galasında Nazilerin toplama kamplarını kırmızı halıya taşımışlar, bu da katılımcıları çok etkilemiş, haberlerde öyle diyor! Promosyona gelin. Günümüz Türkiyesi Arendt'e "temsili kötülüğün sıradanlığı" diye kitap yazdırırdı. pic.twitter.com/fdjT17CMho
— Fırat Yücel (@firatyucel) 30 Ocak 2019
Posting a tweet about the issue, Fırat Yücel, the Editor-in-Chief of Altyazı Cinema Magazine, also said:
"On the premiere of the Çiçero movie, they carried the concentration camps of Nazis to the red carpet. It affected the guests very much, says the news. Ah, look at the promotion. Today's Turkey would have urged Arendt to write a book entitled "the banality of representative evil".
Plot of the movie
Directed by Serdar Akar, the movie "Çiçero" is a biographical drama, which features the life story of Ilyas Bazna, or 'Çiçero', who was a butler in the British Embassy in Turkey during the Second World War, but then started working as a spy for Germany.
About Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp and January 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Auschwitz, also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau, opened in 1940 and was the largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps. Located in southern Poland, Auschwitz initially served as a detention center for political prisoners. However, it evolved into a network of camps where Jewish people and other perceived enemies of the Nazi state were exterminated, often in gas chambers, or used as slave labor. According to some estimates, between 1.1 million to 1.5 million people, the vast majority of them Jews, died at Auschwitz during its years of operation. On November 1, 2005, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted resolution 60/7 to designate January 27, when the Auschwitz Concentration Camp was liberated by the Soviet Army in 1945, as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Source: history.com |
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