Turkish Gov’t Fines Kurdish TV for Airing Holocaust Film ‘The Pianist’

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Turkey’s chief television and radio authority has fined a Kurdish channel for airing the Academy Award-winning film, The Pianist, the local Hürriyet daily said Sunday.

The 2002 drama, directed by Roman Polanski, is based on an autobiographical Holocaust-era memoir of the same name, by Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman.

The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) said in their decision fining Gün TV that the film, which recounts the author’s survival, despite internment in a concentration camp, is “too brutal.”

Opposition CHP party representative, Ali Öztunc, termed RTÜK’s decision as “ridiculous,” in an interview with Hürriyet.

http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/09/14/turkish-govt-fines-kurdish-tv-for-airing-holocaust-film-the-pianist/

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

That's a good movie.

[GBCW 397]

That's a good movie.

In Turkey, it's "too violent".

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

In Turkey, it's "too violent".

So I have this idea for a buddy-cop comedy action film about a kebab shop owner with martial arts skills....

[GBCW 397]

So I have this idea for a buddy-cop comedy action film about a kebab shop owner with martial arts skills....

Make sure the bad guy looks like this and you should be good to go as far as the Turkish government goes.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Make sure the bad guy looks like this and you should be good to go as far as the Turkish government goes.

Guy Ritchie could do justice to the idea.

[GandD 5,966]

Istanbul was Constantinople, now its Istanbul..... not Constantinople.

[GBCW 397]

And once upon a time, the Greeks were all a bunch of flamers.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Istanbul was Constantinople, now its Istanbul..... not Constantinople.

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam, why they changed it, I can't say - people just liked it better that way.

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history.com:

Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam, the capital of New Netherland, to an English naval squadron under Colonel Richard Nicolls. Stuyvesant had hoped to resist the English, but he was an unpopular ruler, and his Dutch subjects refused to rally around him. Following its capture, New Amsterdam's name was changed to New York, in honor of the Duke of York, who organized the mission.

[GandD 5,966]

history.com:

Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam, the capital of New Netherland, to an English naval squadron under Colonel Richard Nicolls. Stuyvesant had hoped to resist the English, but he was an unpopular ruler, and his Dutch subjects refused to rally around him. Following its capture, New Amsterdam's name was changed to New York, in honor of the Duke of York, who organized the mission.

I always thought they changed it because people liked it better that way.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

history.com:

Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam, the capital of New Netherland, to an English naval squadron under Colonel Richard Nicolls. Stuyvesant had hoped to resist the English, but he was an unpopular ruler, and his Dutch subjects refused to rally around him. Following its capture, New Amsterdam's name was changed to New York, in honor of the Duke of York, who organized the mission.

That's interesting but totally besides the point.

I always thought they changed it because people liked it better that way.

That's the word on the street.

Edited September 16, 2014 by Mr. Big Dog

[Karee 4,190]

Maybe they have a problem with the child molester/rapist that made the movie.

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No, they said it's because the Holocaust was too brutal.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Maybe they have a problem with the child molester/rapist that made the movie.

That's just silly,