Azerbaijan, Baku, April 14 /Trend, М.Aliyev/
A protest action was conducted in front of the building of the SWR broadcasting company Mainz city in Germany with regards to demonstration of a film titled "Aghet" on ARD television, State Committee for Work with Diaspora Organizations of Azerbaijan reported.
In this film about the fictional "Armenian genocide", the information, which Armenians spread around the world and which is a lie, is presented as a truth. Recently, a film lasting 90 minutes, taken in 2009-2010, was demonstrated in the Berlin Babylon Cinema.
The protest action in front of the TV, which presented this film to a wider audience, was attended by leaders and activists of the Turkic and Azerbaijani diasporas in Germany. The head of the Rheinland-Pfalz Turkish Society, Neset Hizir, delivered a letter to the representative of SWR television, Dr Simone Sanftenberg, on behalf of the Turkish diaspora. The president of the European Azerbaijanis Congress, Bashar Komur, did likewise on behalf of the Azerbaijani diaspora. They asked Dr Sanftenberg to forward the letters to the SWR's parent channel, ARD.
Speaking on behalf of the Turkish and Azerbaijani communities in Germany, Neset Hizir told a press conference after the protest that the peoples of the two countries opposed the screening of the documentary Aghet by the reputable German TV channel ARD.
A black wreath bearing the words 'Aghet - the biggest lie' was placed in front of the television building.
The protest outside WRD television in Cologne was organized by the head of the Turkish community in Duisburg, Dr Ali Soylemezoglu, the head of the United Azerbaijan Society, Elkhan Karimov, the Yunus Emre Society and Turkish Brotherhood Society. Protesters made statements condemning the demonstration of a film that propagates the Armenian lies.