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Dancing with the devil
After the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and decades of Turkey’s denialist policies, there were simply no diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey. Since the first Nagorno-Karabakh war in 1988, the borders have remained closed. The second Nagorno-Karabakh war in 2020, which resulted in the ethnic cleansing of tens of thousands of Armenians from the region, yet again proved Turkey’s continued pursuit of the same policies it carried out in 1915.
Nevertheless, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinya
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We all know that Turks and Azeris overwhelmingly deny that there was an Armenian Genocide. However, increasingly and disturbingly, there are Turks and Azeris who “acknowledge” the Armenian Genocide, on the pretext that “they deserved it”. This warped “acknowledgement” is as bad and dangerous as Armenian Genocide denial, and it is a continuation of the dehumanization of Armenians among Turks and Azeris, which is an invitation for violence against Armenians – and to which Armenians have been subjected to by Azerbaijan since 1988.
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