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Manon Loisel Lots of Turkish newspapers rejoice at the fact that the Eiffel Tower was for five days, from 6 to 11 October, wearing the Turkish flag’s red and white colours. This was a wink at the “Saison de la Turquie”, which is currently taking place in France and will last for nine months. Whereas Turkish newspapers consider it a success, the French media hardly deal with it.For a few weeks now, posters of Aya Sofia and Bosporus are flooding the Parisian Metro; and not only in Paris but also in such cities as Lille, Marseille, Lyon, Strasbourg and Bordeaux. For nine months the “Turkish saison” celebrates Turkey’s culture through examples of contemporary art, architecture, photography, theater, dance, music and cinema at an estimated four hundred exhibitions.This event has been expected for a long time by lots of Turkish newspapers. On 10 September, the Turkish Daily News celebrated the successful start of The Saison by using lots of superlatives. But in France, the big newspapers, such as Le Monde, Le Figaro and Libération, chose to be either discreet or polemic. In an editorial by Ara Toranian, rather a militant spokesman for the Armenian diaspora in France, (Le Monde, 06/09/2009) he used the argument that no reference was made to the “Armenian genocide.” “Is Cultures France, the organizer, amnesic?” he was asking.Olivier Poivre d’Arvor, the director of Cultures France, the organizer of the event replied to Toranian describing his article “a little excessive and let’s say it, also intellectually dishonest.” The director mentions in his article that a series of discussions are taking place since September where taboos in the Turkish media are being discussed, including the Armenian question. He also points out that Ahmet Insel, one of the signatories of the letter asking for apology from the Armenians also took […]