Ararat Mountain Hampers Way Of Armenian Brandy To Turkish Market
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Court of Intellectual Rights of Ankara rejected the claim of the Yerevan Brandy Factory against the resolution by the Turkish Patent Institute banning import of Armenian brandy to the Turkish market, Yerkir online reported. Its decision the court conditioned by the fact that “the image of Ararat Mountain printed on the label deludes the consumers.”
According to the Turkish media, the Turkish Patent Institute being “well aware” that Armenians have “claims on Ararat Mountain and the territories adjacent to it” rejected the Armenian company on the basis of “variance of the patent request with the state order.” Turkey is afraid that the consumers of the commodities called “Ararat” will think that Ararat Mountain is located in Armenia.
Due to the same reason Atom Egoyan’s film entitled “Ararat” was not shown in Turkey.
http://www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/?task=world&id=13106&date=2005-04-29
Pathetic. This reminds me of how they changed the names of animals simply because they had the word Armenia (or its variant) in it…
Comment by Dan Marsden — 4/30/2005 @ 2:07 am