Armenian, Greek Genocides in Turkish film-makers' movie?

Turkish film-makers have decided to produce a movie featuring the genocides of Armenians and Greeks in the World War I period.

According to Akunq.net, a website covering the latest developments on Western Armenian communities, a central character in the film is Topal Osman, a Trurkish man who was among the perpetrators of the Armenian and Pontic Greek massacres.

The film shooting, which reportedly costs 2 million Turkish Liras (approx. $1 million), will begin on November 4. The actors' team includes 30 people.

Osman, who ruled a gang until 1914, was recruited by the senior staff of Turkish special agencies to plot the genocide against Armenians. He was responsible from clearing the Black Sea region from the Armenian population. With his gang of man-slaughterers freed from jail, he took part in the displacement of people from Ardvin, killing numerous Armenians.

In 1919, already wanted by the Istanbul Military Tribunal, Osman met with Mustafa Kemal. After the meeting, Sultan Vahdettin annulled the decree to arrest him. Osman later became a member of a national rights protection organization (Muhafaza-i Hukuk-u Milliye Cemiyeti). He succeeded in his efforts to suppress anti-Kemalist figures and clear the Black Sea region from Greeks. Osman subjected Pontic Greeks to hellish torments and tortures, burying them alive in graves they had been forced to dig or burning their bodies in boat steamers or skinning them.