TV celebrity Kardashian lashes out at Turkish Cosmo cover

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

VERCİHAN ZİFLİOĞLU

ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News

Kardashian said she did not know Cosmopolitan Turkey would have the same cover as other editions of the fashion and lifestyle magazine.

Well-known Armenian-American TV celebrity Kim Kardashian has hit out at Cosmopolitan magazine for using her photograph as a cover image on the April issue of its Turkish edition.

“I just found out today that I am on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine in Turkey this month,” Kardashian wrote on her blog Tuesday.

“The magazine has a number of international editions all around the world that run in various territories and when I did this shoot for the international covers I had no idea that Turkey was planning to run my story on their cover this month, considering that Genocide Remembrance Day is this month,” she wrote.

April 24 is the date when some countries commemorate the alleged Armenian genocide in the last days of the Ottoman Empire.

Kardashian said she did not know Cosmopolitan Turkey would have the same cover as other editions of the fashion and lifestyle magazine.

“Cosmopolitan ‘neglected’ to tell [my] representation that the Turkish publication would be using the picture,” she wrote. “To make matters worse, the edition coincides with April 24, the date on which Armenians commemorate the genocide.”

Özlam Kotan, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan Turkey, told the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review that the magazine had nothing to do with politics.

“Cosmopolitan is published in 64 different countries all around the world,” said Kotan. “All the visual and written material produced by the headquarters in the United Sates is available for our use, and Kim Kardashian was on our cover because she released her first single.”

Kotan said the staff was not warned not to use the photographs. “Making a political issue out the subject will not do anybody any good,” she said.