Don't Miss The Very First Screening Of Ararat In Turkey !

Atom Egoyan's film Ararat (Released in 2002 and the winner of five Genie Awards, including best picture) will air tomorrow night, Thursday April 13 at 9:30 PM, on Turkish TV "Kanal Turk".

The spokesperson for station Kanalturk told Agence France-Presse that it will broadcast Egoyan's award-winning film – "without cuts or censoring" .

The spokesperson said the decision was made after a recent poll found that 72 per cent of the survey participants supported broadcasting the film, which examines the impact of the Armenian genocide by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923.

A local company purchased distribution rights for Ararat and planned to have the film premiere in Ankara and Istanbul in mid-January 2004.

However, a Turkish group threatened theatre owners planning to screen the film and the company postponed the release indefinitely, fearing violence from right-wing extremists.

The station also had conducted a round-table discussion between Turkish and Armenian intellectuals about the issue, those are: Turkish Official "Kemal Yavuz ," Agos editor Hrant Dink and Movie Critic Necati Sonmez, reported Kanal Turk.