Show gives biased view of conflict

CNN's recent broadcast of the "Screamed Bloody Murder" special report includes a discussion on the controversial nature of the events in Eastern Anatolia during the WWI period, with a predetermined and one-sided outcome to classify the events as an "Armenian genocide." It ignores the plight of Muslims, that is, ethnic Turks, Azerbaijanis and Kurds, who have equally suffered during the war and invasion of their homeland.

It is no secret the events in Eastern Anatolia during the WWI remain controversial with disputing Turkish and Armenian narratives as to the nature and scope of the events of 1915. Therefore, introducing undue bias on the complex nature of these events through televised narratives would be detrimental to the efforts exerted toward establishing an understanding between Turkey and Armenia concerning diverging interpretations.

Furthermore, the CNN special report glaringly ignores the plight of the "other side", the estimated one million Turks, Kurds and Azerbaijanis massacred in the same period in the same region, or almost a thousand Azerbaijanis slaughtered as recently as 1992 by Armenian forces in the town of Khojaly in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.

CNN ignores the fact that several U.S. Members of Congress withdrew their signatures from Armenian lobby's attempt to enact a nonbinding resolution, and that several countries, such as UK, Sweden, Bulgaria and Israel refused to recognize the Armenian allegations and adopt the unfair and inaccurate classification of the events as "genocide."

Armagan Islamoglu

Palatine