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Turkey’s Embassy in Mexico managed to stop the film festival at the Mexico’s National Museum of Cultures through a strong pressure on different state and governmental authorities. The film festival should have aired such films as “Grandma’s tattoos,” “The Lark Farm,” “The Cut,” The Screamer,” “Scar,” “Ararat,” etc., the news agency Prensa Armenia reports.

"After one hundred years of the Armenian Genocide, they once again seek to silence the word. The current Turkish government tries by all means to prevent the use of the word genocide," said Professor Carlos Antaramian at the opening of the exhibition “Armenia, an open wound” held in the Museum of Memory and Tolerance.

According to the sources of that country, after pressure from the Turkish diplomacy, Mexico’s MFA also tried to prevent the use of the word “genocide” within the framework of other events, for instance at the concert dedicated to the Armenian Genocide victims in the Palace of Fine Arts.

"The Mexican government not only does not recognize the Armenian Genocide, but in recent days a very powerful hand inside the government has shown a particular interest in silencing the commemoration of the Genocide which was organized by the Armenian community in Mexico. The word remains muted in this 2015," Antaramian added.

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