By Christina Maranci
Active combat in the 2020 Azerbaijani war against Nagorno-Karabakh (known as Artsakh to Armenians) may have recently ended, but Azeri aggression against the rich and irreplaceable cultural heritage of its indigenous Armenian people has only just begun.
For 20 years, I have studied the medieval Armenian architecture of Eastern Turkey (historically part of Armenia), including Ani, which was once an Armenian royal capital. Both Azerbaijan and Turkey have continuous, well-documented policies of destroying the Armenian cultural…
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