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“Ararat,” the film by Toronto-based Atom Egoyan about the genocide of Armenians at the time of the First World War, can be shown in Turkey, but at least one scene will be cut, a Turkish culture ministry official said this week. The film tells the plight of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey when a 1915-23 campaign to force them from the eastern part of the country left as many as 1.5 million dead. Turkey says the figures are inflated and that Armenians died during civil unrest and not in a planned campaign.
Associated Press
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