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A letter to Pashinyan
Dear Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan:
Having read your remarks as quoted in the Armenian American and diasporan press, I would like to offer an answer to the question you asked: “How is it that in 1939 there was no Armenian Genocide [recognition] agenda, and how is it that in 1950 the Armenian Genocide agenda emerged?”
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We Armenians know and heard, many of us first hand, of the atrocities our ancestors endured. There is no question as to what happened. This happened over a hundred years ago and really only Armenians care and carry this specific scar. There have been other genocides since them and unfortunately more will occur.
However to dwell upon this horrific event and and to continually rub the nose of the Turks in their shameful history of murder is self destructive. For the sake of preserving whatever is left of our ancestral homeland, and as Christians, let’s just take this off the table. Armenians worldwide need to look forward and strive to establish normalized relationships with Turkey and Azerbaijan. Armenia needs this to survive.
this is a clear blackmail from Turkey/Azerbaijan. the next “thing to accept” will be their 1 million refugee replacement in Armenia. are you going to accept that too?
Excuse me!!?? Why should we let go of our rights, and not the turks let go the denial policy and admit what they have done. Germans were civil and accepted their mistakes; the turks should do the same asap
God forbid, someone kills your own Family, are you ready to let that go, for the sake of living in peace, seriously 😒
Mr. Zartarian,
Before offering such a naive and misguided opinion, I urge you to educate yourself on the historical atrocities committed by the Turkish government, its ongoing political, social, and economic destabilization efforts, and its broader geopolitical ambitions—particularly in its unwavering support for Azerbaijan, yet another extension of Turkey’s aggressive Genocidal agenda. Your lack of awareness on these matters is not only regrettable but also undermines the gravity of the situation at hand. I suggest a more informed and critical approach before engaging in such discussions.
Agreed!
This is exactly what the Turkish pan-Turanism movement wants us to
do! Impunity at its best : no thanks for the sake of our martyrs … lost in the past 110 years. No to denialism,
no to historical revisionism, no to Armenophobia,
no to Genocide. Stand up for our Rights and Justice !
You mentioned ethics in your article, I doubt he understands what ethic means, I believe Armenians should investigate who financed and empowered him to become Prime Minister, usually powerful people bring to power incompetent leaders which can be easily maneuvered.
Beautifully written and great question and we should expect a true answer from a president of a country the diaspora has largely supported for so many years.
PM Pashinian should learn to shut his mouth and swallow the poison that he is going to spit it out, so that he’s the only one who is poisoned and not the whole of the Armenian nation.
Armenia should make it a law to check the mental and physical health of all its politicians starting with the current PM.
Shame on him.
Letters like this are useless and will be ignored by the person who is addressed.
Throughout my 40-year-long engagement with that geographical and historical entity east of Anatolia once called Turkish Armenia I’ve always, in my heart, known that the most dangerous enemies to its existence will eventually be from among Armenians and from the Armenian state, not from Turks and the Turkish state.
Have you also been on Turkish government’s payroll for all those 40 years to spew such racist nonsense to blame the victims themselves for their demise? Do you even know what genocidal Ottoman Turkish Empire was all about? For five plus centuries all these Central Asian criminals did was to invade, occupy and subjugate the indigenous inhabitants of these lands under the banner of Islam and Turkish fascism. And when they tried to free themselves from these criminal occupiers they were subjected to mass deportation, mass extermination and genocide. As an analogy, what you wrote here is no different from blaming the Palestinians themselves for their ethnic-cleansing at the hands of the Israelis just because they wanted to live and exist on their own homeland free of occupation.
P.S. The name of the place is Western Armenia and neither “Turkish Armenia” nor “Anatolia”. The term “Anatolia” is not even Turkish. It has Greek roots and it means territory “east of Greece” which means today’s Western Turkey. The reason this fabricated term “Anatolia” or “East Anatolia” is used to refer to this region is to remove from the map any mention of Western Armenia and to erase from memory the indigenous populations of the land murdered in cold-blood and by premeditated genocide as part of the Islamization and Turkification of these ancient Christian lands after the loss of all occupied territories.