Turkey criticizes that the Disney platform has withdrawn a television series dedicated to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the republic, under pressure from the “Armenian lobby”.
The president of the Superior Council of Radio and Television, Ebubekir Sahin, announced this week on Twitter that “a thorough investigation” was being opened into these “accusations”.
“It is unfortunate that a platform based in the United States gives in to the pressure of the Armenian lobby and cancels the broadcast of the ‘Atatürk’ series,” added the person in charge, judging this attitude “disrespectful towards the values ??of the Republic of Turkey and our nation “.
The “Disney Turkiyé” platform, a local subsidiary of the US company, defended itself against these accusations this Wednesday, assuring that it was a “change of strategy” and that the series would be broadcast in two parts and in theaters at the end of the year.
The channel had announced at the beginning of July the broadcast “soon of the original series
Several Turkish media, including the daily Milliyet, accused the platform of having “bowed down to the Armenian lobby.” More than a million and a half Armenians died in 1915 between massacres and deportations by the Ottoman Empire, the origin of present-day Turkey.
More than 30 countries have acknowledged that it was genocide, but Ankara insists that the killings were carried out by both sides.
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