Stallone To Direct Movie About Armenian 'genocide'?.... Sylvester Stallone has sparked controversy by plotting to direct a film adaptation of controversial book The Forty Days Of Musa Dagh, which describes the alleged Turkish massacre of its Armenian community in 1915.The book by Austrian author Franz Werfel is controversial in Turkey, where the claimed genocide has never been wholly accepted as a historical fact.And the Association On Struggle Against Armenian Genocide Acknowledgement is urging Stallone not to make the film.Chairman Savas Egilmez fumes, "The book is full of lies, since the author got his information from nationalist and radical Armenians. We have already sent necessary documents about the mentioned days to the producer of the film. Our allies will urge the producer not to produce the film."Stallone says the film would be "an epic about the complete destruction of a civilisation. (But) talk about a political hot potato. The Turks have been killing that subject for 85 years."

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