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Uzay Bulut
Uzay Bulut is a Turkish journalist and political analyst formerly based in Ankara. She is a fellow at the Middle East Forum (MEF) and is currently based in Washington D.C. Bulut’s journalistic work focuses mainly on Turkish politics, ethnic and religious minorities in Turkey, and antisemitism.
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STOP calling Armenia by “Anatolia”. It’s a Greek word for former Greek territories that never applied to Armenia until the modern period, when it has been used to replace Armenia. Calling it by this false name further eliminates any Armenian traces
Martiros,
You can say this politely. The author, who is a very Brave Turk, is a friend of truth. She bothered to do research. She read Kevorkian. Please show politeness to her.
I’d agree that the sentence “Coming from the steppes of Central Asia, Seljuk Turks targeted Anatolia and started conquering it with the Battle of Manzikert or Malazgirt in 1071” is a toponymical absurdity, because there was no such place name back in the time as “Anatolia”. The region was known as Armenia, Asia Minor, and further to the west, Cappadocia. There was no such a city as “Malazgirt”, either. The city was known under its original Armenian name, Manazkert, or Byzantinized/Latinizied variation, Manzikert. To be fair, the latter is mentioned by the author. I also think we should cut the author a slack in that at least she mentioned “the Armenian highlands” in the article.
The author did mention the fact that Yerznka-Erzincan was part of Armenia at least 5 times in the article:
“Erzincan, or Yerznka in Armenian, is a city in the Armenian highlands.”
… visited Erzincan in the second half of the thirteenth century, describes “greater Hermenia” [Armenia]: “This is a great country. It begins at a city called Arzinga [Erzincan]. The people of the country are Armenians.”
“Erzincan is one of Armenia’s most beautiful, famous, pleasant, active and populated cities… The majority of the population is Armenian.”
“Erzincan is located in Turkish Armenia”
“The Armenian heritage in Anatolia and historic Armenia is about to disappear forever.”
So if you still want to bash the author, at least make sure you read the article carefully.
I have a land in Erzincan which has a Armenian church and village and cemetery… Please reach me about it. I would like give it to renovate it or sell it to people who can renovate it and open for historical tourism which is better for both side of people …