The so-called historic visit of Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to Türkiye, and his subsequent meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, might serve as a symbolic means of normalizing the countries’ relationship and achieving regional peace. However, the event’s historic significance is questionable, given that only Pashinyan has consistently pursued peace, while Türkiye was the first to close its borders in 1993.
Many have labeled the visit ‘historic,’ but the re
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Why are Armenian authors using the name “Türkiye” for Turkey in Armenian Weekly articles? This name change was imposed by Turkish dictator Erdogan in 2021, who insists that the “international community” uses the Turkish name for the country in international communiqués and that the foreign media uses it too. This name change is purely an ideological propagandistic motive by Erdogan, and foreigners, and annoyingly even Armenians are using it in Armenian communiqués and in Armenian media. The ideological aspect of the usage of the Turkish name is obvious, and one can even easily guess in Turkey, who is an Erdogan supporter and who is not, because Erdogan supporters use “Türkiye” in other languages, whereas Erdogan opponents definitely do not. Armenians should also not use the Turkish name for Turkey, for this reason.
Turkey requested it’s national title be known as Turkiye internationally as a nation may wish to do. Other countries may have their own toponyms to the Turks Armenia is Erminstan for example.
As for criticisms Armenia which Russia had a monopolistic and abusive relationship with Armenia and betrayed in favour of to it more important interests with Turkey and Azerbaijan although realistically Armenia couldn’t expect to control Russia foreign policies. Turkey and Azerbaijan have a strong relationship built on racial and religious and cultural communalities. Indeed for these reasons Armenia an idiosyncratic peoples with no close kin although Greek is considered the closest can never have the communal kind of relationship with Russia a predominantly Slavic peoples .
The defeat in 2020 exposed weakness which was actually there all along. As matters stand Turkey and Azerbaijan can manage along as it is. Armenia is dependent on the borders with Georgia and Iran for communication otherwise it’s literally besieged.
Why on Earth does Armenia need to have any relation with either Turkey or her puppets regime in Baku? Armenia can have relationship with 450 million people in Europe through Georgia, 250 million in Russia through Georgia and Iran, and 3 billion people in India and China through Iran. For God sake, stop your obsessions’ with normalizing relation with Ankara and Baku or even talking about them, instead spend your time and energy to improve your relation with the rest of the world. Armenia is not going to benefit by having relation with them, Ankara and Baku badly need peace deal with Armenia in order to improve their stand in the European union, this is exactly what Erdogan had in mind for meeting the prim minister of Armenia.