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March 29, 2005
NBC APOLOGIZES FOR INACCURATE PORTRAYAL OF TURKEY
turkishpress.com
Jeff Zucker, president of the NBC television network, and John Wells, executive producer of NBC series The West Wing, sent a letter to Turkey’s Ambassador to Washington, Faruk Logoglu, apologizing for NBC’s inaccurate portrayal of Turkey in a recent episode of the show. The episode in question portrayed Turkey as a country ruled by Islamic law which had ordered the beheading of a woman for the crime of adultery. Zucker and Wells offered their apologies to Logoglu for the unflattering portrayal and wrote that they had been misinformed about Turkey and its laws. In an effort to correct the defamation, many Turkish politicians and diplomats, including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan himself, had criticized NBC and sought an apology. “In the future, we will not only visit Turkey, a country that we admire, but also present a better and correct portrayal of your country,” added Zucker and Wells. /Hurriyet/
Posted by Jo at March 29, 2005 08:16 AM