Upcoming splinter cell video game portrays PKK as terrorists

[Feyli_kord]

Splinter cell is a fairly long and well-known game franchise. Dealing with the tom-Clancy based fictional exploits of splinter cell agent sam fisher. In this upcoming game produced and developed by Ubisoft Toronto, there is a map and mission where you take down "PJAK terrorists" and try to capture a "terrorist leader". It plays out on Iran-Iraq border.

You can see the Kurdish flag in Minute 4.21 and the first minute.

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[Anthea]

Thank you for drawing our attention to this

Perhaps we should all write to the company concerned and complain

Could someone make the Kurdish government aware of this and they themselves could complain

[Shere Medya]

This is very old and Ubisoft has already removed the Kurdish flags on request by Barzani.

[Anthea]

This is very old and Ubisoft has already removed the Kurdish flags on request by Barzani.

Glad something has been done

[Piling]

I remember the story, so funny. I wrote the complete story here :

The Kurdistan Department for Foreign relations wrote a letter of protest to Ubisoft, a French firm that has become the world’s 3rd largest publisher of video games and so obliged it to retouch a graphic element in the next section of one of most famous video games “Splinter Cell”.

The publisher of “Prince of Persia”, “Assassin’s Creed”, and “splinter Cell” is due to bring out a new episode of Tom Clancy’s adventures in 2013: “Splinter Cell Blacklist” that begins with a terrorist group preparing a series of attacks in the United States.

While looking at the trailer some Kurds were infuriated at seeing that the terrorist stronghold surrounded by American commandos was flying Kurdistan’s historic flag, which is also that of the present Regional Government of Iraqi Kurdistan.

The Kurdistan Region’s Foreign Minister, Falah Mustafa Bakir, even wrote a letter of protest to the Communication Department of Ubisoft (US).

Questioned about this the artistic Director of Ubisoft, in Toronto, gave the following explanation: the scenes’ graphics were inspired by present day villages in the rural Kurdistan mountains. “The terrorists has driven out the villagers and used this township as a base, since its “natural camouflage” makes it an ideal secret training camp. If the terrorists have retained the Kurdish flag in a visible position, it is to preserve their ‘camouflage’” insisted Scott Lee, explaining that he had wanted to place side by side heavy weapons and military elements in a “civilian” décor.

This, however, did not convince the Kurds, who opened a protest page in Facebook, which pointed out that “being the largest nation without its own State did not necessarily make it a terrorist nation. One could otherwise think that its alliance with the USA in the war against Iraq in 2003 made it a rogue nation”, recalled Falah Mustafa Bakir, in his letter.

The Director of the Communications department of Ubisoft, Michael Burk, has promised that the flag will be removed in the final version and that they had never intended to confuse people’s minds by making the Kurdish flag a symbol of terrorism.
http://www.institutkurde.org/en/publica ... .html#bul3

[Feyli_kord]

I remember the story, so funny. I wrote the complete story here :

The Kurdistan Department for Foreign relations wrote a letter of protest to Ubisoft, a French firm that has become the world’s 3rd largest publisher of video games and so obliged it to retouch a graphic element in the next section of one of most famous video games “Splinter Cell”.

The publisher of “Prince of Persia”, “Assassin’s Creed”, and “splinter Cell” is due to bring out a new episode of Tom Clancy’s adventures in 2013: “Splinter Cell Blacklist” that begins with a terrorist group preparing a series of attacks in the United States.

While looking at the trailer some Kurds were infuriated at seeing that the terrorist stronghold surrounded by American commandos was flying Kurdistan’s historic flag, which is also that of the present Regional Government of Iraqi Kurdistan.

The Kurdistan Region’s Foreign Minister, Falah Mustafa Bakir, even wrote a letter of protest to the Communication Department of Ubisoft (US).

Questioned about this the artistic Director of Ubisoft, in Toronto, gave the following explanation: the scenes’ graphics were inspired by present day villages in the rural Kurdistan mountains. “The terrorists has driven out the villagers and used this township as a base, since its “natural camouflage” makes it an ideal secret training camp. If the terrorists have retained the Kurdish flag in a visible position, it is to preserve their ‘camouflage’” insisted Scott Lee, explaining that he had wanted to place side by side heavy weapons and military elements in a “civilian” décor.

This, however, did not convince the Kurds, who opened a protest page in Facebook, which pointed out that “being the largest nation without its own State did not necessarily make it a terrorist nation. One could otherwise think that its alliance with the USA in the war against Iraq in 2003 made it a rogue nation”, recalled Falah Mustafa Bakir, in his letter.

The Director of the Communications department of Ubisoft, Michael Burk, has promised that the flag will be removed in the final version and that they had never intended to confuse people’s minds by making the Kurdish flag a symbol of terrorism.
http://www.institutkurde.org/en/publica ... .html#bul3

Well, can you blame us? Some people who watched borat and believed he was a genuine representative of khazakhstan.

[Piling]

And they probably believe that Kazakhstan and Kurdistan are closed neighbors, by the way.