The Armenian authorities don’t pay visits to Nagorno-Karabakh, and I won’t be surprised if later they refuse to visit Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex in order to please Turkey. This is what the President of the International Center for Human Development NGO, political scientist Tevan Poghosyan told reporters today.
According to him, Turkey won’t renounce its preconditions in any way. “The re-election of the incumbent authorities secured more losses and failures for us Armenians,” Poghosyan said.
The political scientist added that Armenia failed to overcome a tremendous number of crises and challenges that existed in the past and escalated even more and emerged after the new authorities came to power. “I’m referring to the financial crisis and the crisis in diplomacy and security, and, in my opinion, the most important one if the moral-psychological crisis, which had an impact on each and every one of us. Moreover, all these crises continue to escalate,” Poghosyan clarified.
Three days before Prof. Tevan Poghosyan voiced his concerns about the readiness of PM Pashinyan to silence any Armenian who supports the universal recognition of the Genocide of 1915, we published a criticism of an Azeri article conveying the official position of Aliyev.
It was obvious for us also, that if PM Pashinyan maintains the current position on the Genocide, Tsitsernakaberd, The Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex, will become off limit for visits soon, and it may well be dismantled to protect Turkish and Azeri sensitivities, perceiving the Genocide narrative as a fictitious story invented by Armenians.
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On Dec. 16, 2021 Rufiz Hafizoglu, an Azeri journalist who is the Head of the Foreign Projects Directorate of Trend News Agency, an Azeri media outlet with a corporate ownership tied to the Aliyev’s family, published an article titled: Yerevan’s choice between Turkey’s “carrot” and Armenian diaspora’s “stick” to praise the efforts of Pashinyan’s government and tarnish the image of the Armenian diaspora spearheading the fight for the universal recognition of the 1915 Genocide perpetrated by Turkey.
What are the key contentions and questions addressed by Hafizoglu?
1) The Diaspora turned the “Fictitious Genocide of 1915” into a business to generate profit, and justify the “raison d’être” of Armenian political parties active in the diaspora.
2) According to Hafizoglu, Armenians from Armenia without any reservations based on historical animosities, select Turkey as a tourism destination. According to the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism 1,280 Armenians visited Turkey in October 2021, in the midst of a COVID19 pandemic.
3) Again, based on figures published in the Turkish media, “…every month at least 200 Armenian citizens stay in Turkey, illegally work there, and this is nothing more than a way to settle in the country.” So, if Armenians are at ease and feel very safe while engaging in tourism related activities, and are not afraid to work illegally in Turkey and be exploited in menial jobs Turks refuse to perform, why do Turkey and Azerbaijan have to assign any credibility to the barking dogs of the Armenian Diaspora? In essence Armenian political parties in the diaspora can bark well, but are clearly impotent in turning the bark into a bite. Conclusion: Armenia should proceed with taking advantage of the “Olive Branch” extended by Turkey.
4) The $10,000 questions Hafizoglu asks at the end of his article: “Will Armenia be able to escape from the Armenian diaspora amid rapprochement with Turkey? Will it be able to renounce its claims of a fictitious “genocide”? Renouncing the Genocide of 1915 as a “Figment of Imagination” means Tsitsernakaberd, The Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex, must be dismantled. After all, how can we celebrate and honour the memory of 1.5 million Armenian victims, who perished under the watchful eyes of The Young Turks, when a Prime Minister, acting as the agent of The State of Armenia, accepts the Turkish and Azeri narrative that it was nothing short of a fictional bed time story Armenians in the Diaspora fed their children for generations.
5) Hafizoglu concludes his article with the following advice clearly directed to the citizens and government of Armenia: “…the sooner Yerevan escapes from the Armenian diaspora, the better for Armenia and its citizens.”
Pashinyan, with his zero tolerance for everything that disrupts his personal interests (not the collective well being of The Armenian Nation), to satisfy the whims of his brothers Erdogan and Aliyev, may soon deliver to The Armenian nation the most dangerous “moral-psychological” crisis: Classifying The Genocide of 1915 as an Armenian invention, not as a historical fact.
Noubar Harry Serabian, editor Artsakh The Inadequate Response