Turkish Actress Subjected to Death Threats for Acknowledging Armenian Genocide

In a TV program called “The Back Room of History” broadcast by Habertürk TV channel, famous Turkish artist and actress Pelin Batu said she was receiving death threats after, during the same program last week, she had said that “the 1915 events constituted Genocide” and had burst into tears, reports Turkish news source Milliyet.

“We have to be careful about what we say because I am receiving death threats for the words I used last week. I am receiving emails that read ‘Go and become their lawyer.’ I am not a lawyer for any nation, neither for Armenians, nor for Turks, nor the Kurds ... I am only saying let’s speak objectively about what happened. Our nation has become so intolerant,” said the actress hinting at Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s recent notorious statement on deporting Armenian migrants working illegally in Turkey.

“We have become an intolerant nation. The prime minister’s words do not contribute to anything. And for that reason I am recieving death threats,” she said.