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WHYY-TV MEMBERSHIP DRIVE CELEBRATES OUR DIVERSE COMMUNITY THIS SPRING WITH
THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
WHYY-TV celebrates our diverse community during our June Membership Drive,
through special programming including The Armenian Genocide, which, airs
at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 5.
That night `Genocide’s’ Emmy-Award winning producer, Andrew Goldberg, of
Two Cats Productions, will be live in the WHYY studio discussing his
documentary.
The documentary is the story of the first Genocide of the 20th century,
when over one million Armenians died at the hands of the Turks during
World War 1. The program features interviews with experts in the field
including Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Samantha Power, and New York
Times best-selling author, Peter Balakian. The film also features
never-before-seen historical footage and key players from the events of
1915.
Goldberg filmed the piece in six countries; US, France, Germany, Belgium,
Turkey and Syria. He captured stories and discussions with Kurdish and
Turkish citizens in modern-day Turkey who speak openly about the stories
shared with them by their parents and grandparents.
The film includes testimony by former Turkish Diplomat Gunduz Aktan to US
lawmakers from 2000. In the piece he explains the Turkish position on the
issue by saying `The Turkish people firmly believe that what happened to
the Armenian people was not Genocide.’
Goldberg says, `As Turkey seeks to join the European Union, 90 years
later, this film can give people a much better understanding of why this
issue is such an important and current part of the international
conversation about Turkey’s role in the world today.
Julianna Margulies narrates the film, which also includes historical
narrations by Ed Harris, Natalie Portman, Laura Linney and Orlando Bloom
to name a few.
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