Turkish film director may shoot film about Hrant Dink

Yerevan is hosting these days many outstanding personalities of the world of cinema in the framework of the Annual Golden Apricot international film festival. Among them is also famous Turkish film director Semih Kaplanoglu.

His Honey has already been shown in the framework of Yerevan première program.

Kaplanoglu is known to have been a friend of Hrant Dink, the slain Turkish-Armenian chief editor of Istanbul-based bilingual daily Agos.

Asked whether he is planning to shoot a film about Dink, Kaplanoglu said it is possible.

"That is possible, but I have no such idea at the moment," Kaplanoglu told Tert.am, adding that that topic though is 'a very sensitive one' in Turkey.