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YEREVAN, JULY 13, ARMENPRESS: Germany-based director of Turkish origin Fatih Akin thinks that the conflict between Armenia and Turkey is the birth of fear, he said at a press conference today.
“My parents are from Turkey, and I do not want to dramatize how many issues I had connected with my identity,” he said, adding that the basis of his films is this issue and non-correspondence. “In my films I mainly try to understand Turkey. Once I even thought I’ve understood. But the experience showed that I have not managed to recognize it completely,” Fatih Akin said. And to the question whether he listens to the call of blood, the director said that he is not thinking in blood categories. “In my opinion, speaking of blood has chauvinism elements. The blood is the same for me everywhere, in each state, it differs only in classes,” he said, adding that when you start classifying blood it bothers the freedom of a person. “Armenian-Turkish conflict is based on fear. The problem is to overcome the fear which appears while looking on the truth. Film has the power to overcome that fear,” he said. According to him, film, literature and music can take the hand of a spectator and take him/her through the dark rooms of the truth.
“In my “Fear eats the Soul” film I tell how many souls were eaten in Turkey,” he said, noting that he has a deep conviction that time will come when these issues will be solved.