No, this article is not about the injustice being heaped upon working people in many states in the U.S. Rather, it’s about the aches and agony—self-inflicted—that Turkey seems to relish. One has to wonder if that’s not the reason its chauvinistic “republican” government has “renamed” Armenia’s stolen mountain “Ağrı Dağı.”
In case you were not aware, Ararat in Turkey is officially named that obscenity. “Ağrı” means labor pain or ache, according to the online Turkish-English dictionary I consulted. How offensive that our usurped national symbol is called something as unpleasant as pain!
But Turkey seems to enjoy pain. How else can we explain their spending huge amounts of money and energy lying, covering up, and denying the genocide while simultaneously maintaining their occupation of our lands? Turks complain of being “maligned” by us and others, but last I checked, telling the truth isn’t the same as maligning someone. The solution is simple, and the pain (and the analogously misnamed mountain along with it) goes away! Fess up, pay up, back up (of our lands, that is)!
It’s funny that Erdogan (Turkey’s prime minister) has seen fit to bash Serge Sarkisian over the latter’s response to a student’s question while he was visiting a school; responding to whether or not we’d ever get Ararat back, Sarkisian said it was up to the student’s generation to liberate it, just as a portion of Armenia (Artsakh) was liberated by the current generation.
Erdogan interprets this as a lack of interest by Sarkisian in achieving peace. A quick switcheroo, and Erdogan is instructing Armenia to resolve its issues with Azerbaijan, only after which Turkey will open its border with Armenia. Plus, a Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson claims Sarkisian is provoking “an ideology of hostility and hatred among societies.” I suppose genocidal and denialist policies are manifestations of amity and love among societies.
This is the absurdity we face as Armenians. Share this laughable situation with non-Armenian friends so they better appreciate our predicament. Heap derision on Turkey’s rulers. You can even add the policy of renaming places, adopted by the Ottomans and continued by their current denialist political progeny. That policy is just another way of erasing any hint of our presence in our homeland, the Armenia Plateau. Interestingly, Kurds have engaged in a campaign to restore place names to their pre-forced-changed origins. If they’re successful, we’ll have to thank them because a majority of those names will be Armenian ones!
Enjoy the Turkish PM’s pathetic commentaries. Share them with a huge helping of ridicule with your friends.
Garen Yegparian
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You got it Garen jan.. it was indeed a laughable matter as I mentioned in my post on this subject..
Erdodog and Alipoop are just little children who whine and stamp their feet on things that no once cares….
And now they are acting like big kids and demand an apology from Sarkissyan… all i can say to that is ” HAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAA””” dream on losers…
Gayane
Sultan Erdoghan, renaming Mount Ararat with a Turkish moniker doesn’t grantTurkeyownership of it. Also you are transgressing against your beliefs and betraying all the prophets mentioned in the Quran Al-Sherif. Mt.Araratis mentioned in the book of Genesis as the resting place of Noah’sArkafter the Flood. Of course it is a holy symbol for the Armenian culture. It represents the homeland to Armenians all around the world.