says: now this scotland wants to prevent brexit, they say, we wanted to stay in eu, what are you doing, we want to get out of britain now. continues: these english people didn’t learn, they were friends with turkey for so long, and still did not learn anything. they had to genocide these scotts, and solve the question once and for ever. and now they hear - we want, we don’t want, we like your brexit, we don’t like, hey england, if you’d murder those guys priorly, you would not get these problems.
#sarcasm #turkey #genocide
now i thought a long before publishing this in english, because i need to tag it with sarcasm, otherwise you won’t get it. also, the context is, it is said by an armenian guy, obviously, the side which was not a beneficiary of the genocide.
so the translation is: such a free country, such a privileged people. how cool is that!
Turkish nationalists: there was no Armenian genocide Also Turkish nationalists: well there was but the Kurds did it Also Turkish nationalists: we’re gonna kill the Kurds like we killed the Armenians
https://twitter.com/mathaiaus/status/912952351178104833
#armenian_genocide #turkey #1915 #kurds #nationalism
A series of maps showing locations in Turkey that have been re-named over the past century. #turkey #map
my friend from Germany have been written
By the way, Thursday I have been in the German parliament when the deputies finally passed a bill on recognising the Armenian genocide. Brilliant discussion, very good argumentation. The cool thing is that the government didn’t want this decision, but the parliament just did it. Merkel and her most important ministers didn’t attend the session, because they had promised to Erdogan not to vote in favour of the recognition.
Even the deputies with Turkish roots have voted in favour of the recognition. Unfortunately, they have a lot of problems now and are threatend by Turkish nationals. They even get murder threats now and Erdogan has personnaly called these deputies “terrorists”.
#armenian_genocide #germany #turkey #armenia #merkel #erdogan #recognition #nationalism
I have seen no place on my journey more beautiful or sadder than Ani
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/04/armenia-massacre-turkey-kurds-history/
#armenia #history #armenian-genocide #turkey #ani
today is a conventional date of the beginning of the 1915’s Armenian genocide in Turkey. Armenians all over the world commemorate the victims. Some of survivors are still alive. Almost all Armenians in the west are ancestors of survivors. Many of us have some relative who survived. My grandfather is also from the family of survivors from Van.
I never liked the date, in particularly, because I felt a link between the date and the victim psychology among the nation. This psychology of the victim was also stimulated and greeted in USSR, as a way to make Armenians more loyal to the empire, and make them sure that they won’t be able to survive without the big brother.
Today is of course, non working day in Armenia, however I came to work, to deal with problems caused by power outage. I was passing through the building and made this photo. This is an A4 b/w print of the We are our mountains monument in Artsakh, and photo of Monte Melkonian, hero of so called NK war. This is what regular radio engineer have printed to hung over it’s table. And though it may seem “militaristic” to hung a photo of a man in uniform, I believe, it’s not really.
(Monte was a very interesting person. when almost all of the Martakert district was lost, and Azerbaidjani army had much more power, he was able to take it back. He had no tanks, but to the end of war he had ~40 tanks under his control, all captured from the Azerbaijani army. He did not tolerate marauding and never allowed that.)
Why is this? Because something have changed. Armenians do not perceive themselves as victims to the such extent as in the past. The important part of an Armenian identity today is that Armenians were able to defend themselves in Artsakh, the population was not eliminated, ethnic cleansings conveyed by Azerbaidjan in late eighties and early nineties failed, at least in most of Artsakh.
They were able to prevent the next genocide. That is why Artsakh is extremely important for any Armenian. That’s a symbol of a victory, probably the most important victory throughout the last ~1000 years.
And what is very sad, that Artsakh has no many chances to be recognized by the International community, and interests of Turkey, which keeps Armenia in blockade, and Azerbaijan, which has oil, are more important to the big players.
It looks like almost any major force is interested to make Artsakh controllable by aggressive, non democratic, militaristic, not tolerant Azerbaijan, which recently again tried to use violence to, as they say, “reestablish territorial integrity”, and in reality, to clean up remaining parts of Artsakh from Armenians. Or, may be make them citizens of the country which conveyed ethnic cleansings, and destroyed every Armenian heritage they were able to.
#1915 #genocide #armenian-genocide #armenian_genocide #armenia #turkey #azerbaijan #artsakh #nkpeace #monte_melkonian #we_our_mountains
Shai acknowledged that the Jewish state is reluctant to send a more high-level delegation to Yerevan for fear of upsetting Turkey. “We’re a small country and can’t fight with everyone all the time,” he told “The Jerusalem Post.”
#israel #armenia #armenian-genocide #genocide #turkey #1915 #knesset #delegation #recognition
Julian Assange Says Talk of Armenian Genocide Censored in Turkey
http://asbarez.com/126864/julian-assange-says-talk-of-armenian-genocide-censored-in-turkey/
#assange #wikileaks #armenia #turkey #genocide #armenian-genocide #censorship
Is ‘Armenian’ an insult? Turkey’s prime minister seems to think so.
(already president)
#armenian #armenia #Erdogan #turkey #politics
and this is the trailer of the movie by Fatih Akin, it will be screened at upcoming Venice Film Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA7j6zvApPI
that’s why he receive death threats
#armenia #turkey #armeniangenocide #armenian-genocide #fatih-akin #movie #history #politics
btw, my grandfather is survivor. from Van.
Death threats addressed to the film director and Agos following interview on the film about the #ArmenianGenocide http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/08/cengiz-film-about-1915-threats-armenians-agos-fatih-akin.html
#fatih-akin #agos #turkey #armenia #genocide #movie #threat
Imperial Mindsets Survive Empires
What is the responsibility of historians and social scientists in the resurgence of imperial solutions to evaluate the present based on the past through critical lenses? Could things have been different in Russia and Turkey had historians and other social scientists been more critical assessors of imperial history, especially when educating the new generations in schools?
Gerard Libaridian on South Caucasus After USSR Collapsed
#history #imperial #empire #empires #mindset #responsibility #science #past #russia #turkey #iran #south-caucasus #armenia #georgia #azerbaijan #freedom #independence
Finding the Original Azerbaijan, or Aran
Ara Ghazarians talks to CivilNet about his English translation of Dr Enayatollah Reza’s book “Azerbaijan and Aran” that explains how political motivations, historic ties and and ethnic connections lie behind the use, or abuse, of the names Azerbaijan and Aran on two historic territories in the Caucasus and Iran — the Republic of Azerbaijan and the province of Azerbaijan in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKalUVotH_Y http://civilnet.am/ara-ghazarians-azerbaijan-and-or-aran/
#conflict #Azerbaijan #Aran #Caucasian-Albania #Iran #Armenia #Caucasus #history #geography #ethnography #archeology #translation #English #Enayatollah-Reza #Ara-Ghazarians #civilnet #azeri #azari #research #book #history-abuse #naming #politics #Turkey #expansionism #motives #absurdity #pan-turkism #fake #books #study #education
այսօր սքան անելիս էի լսում, շատ հավես հարցազրույց է, չնայած շատ թարմ չէ, բայց շատ բաներ ժամանակից դուրս են։ ինչպես միշտ էխո֊յում, կարելի է կարդալ ու լսել ու դիտել։ ահա։
http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/albac/1096510-echo/
#echo #interview #turkey #police #protest #law #турция #полиция #протест #закон #էխո #հարցազրույց #թուռքիա #օրենք #պրոտեստ #ոստիկանություն #բռնություն #ազատություն
#Marc-Riboud #Turkey, #1955
#photography #road #turtle #ֆոտո #փողոց #ճանապարհ #կրիա
#Turkey ’s #music -al #archive preserved due to #Armenian #musician #Hambardzum-Limonchyan http://armenpress.am/eng/news/711725/turkeys-musical-archive-preserved-due-to-armenian-musician-hambardzum-limonchyan.html
