Re: Liberation of Western Armenia
Armenian
Your comparisons are very poor... Azerbaidjan is a tiny nation of the size of Armenia, Tukey is 71 millions of people. As for Kurds, they're guerillas, not a real army, Turkey does not fight them as it would fight Armenians, Turkey is not going to bomb its own cities, slaying its own citizens. However, the same couldn't be told in case of war with Armenia, Turks would conquer it very easily as they did in the past, and as they conquered the whole South-Eastern Europe in a very easy and quick way.
Turks are not weak, they have been able to control millions of Europeans who outnumbered them, for centuries, Greece and the rest of the Balkan peninsula were Ottoman for 6 centuries, until 1912.
Weak is a relative term, most of Turkey has not been occupied fo almost a millenium, for the time of the Seljuks and of the Ottomans, Turks enjoyed total independence, even the Western attempt to colonise Turkey after the Treaty of Sevres has miserably failed, as Turkish nationalists woke up and defeated the Western armies (Italy, Greece, the U.K, and France), driving them out of Anatolia, and taking all of the lands who were assignated to Greece and Armenia back. On the other hand, Armenians have never been independent for centuries, Armenians are independent since 1991 only, they were conquered by Romans, Byzantines and Iranians, Arabs, Mongols, Turks and Russians, and then Soviets.
And you think that those lands are magically worthless in the eyes of their autochtonous Muslim people? It is also the ancestral lands of Muslim Turks and Kurds. Oh and, sorry to disapoint you, but the first human civilisation did not begin in Turkey, it started in the Arabian peninsula, in the Southern part of modern Iraq, at the time of the Sumerian ancestors of the Iraqi Arabs.
And how many Armenians suffered from this Lebanese exile? 4% of Lebanon's population are Armenians, tens of thousands of them live in Palestine as well, in Syria and Jordan too, all of them are descending of the Anatolian refugees of the 1910's. Should them be expelled from Arab lands? After all, they're only guests (hiden and saved by Arab families, from Ottoman persecutions), not indigenous people of the Arab World, unlike Kurds and Turks in Anatolia.
So, "Western Armenia" belongs to people of modern Armenia, and not to its Kurdish and Turkish inhabitants? Muslims are indigenous to this area and have inhabited it for millenia, they constitute the vast majority of its population and do not want to be a part of Armenia. But you can still dream about a powerful Armenian military which would conquer Turkey to realise your senseless dreams, considering the extreme weakness of Armenia, it seems like it is just a fantasy.
Armenian
No one believed that Armenians would be able to beat the Azeri enemy that was much larger and much beter eguipped. American Turkish relations are based upon political interests. When politics change so can their relationship. What's more, Turks in reality, have not been able to do much militarily against Kurds, who are just a bunch of disorganized disunited gaurillas.
Re-read the essey I wrote, I am not calling for a war against Turkey, I simply want us to be ready for the day when Turkey is weak and the political situation is right.
Weak is a relative term, most of Turkey has not been occupied fo almost a millenium, for the time of the Seljuks and of the Ottomans, Turks enjoyed total independence, even the Western attempt to colonise Turkey after the Treaty of Sevres has miserably failed, as Turkish nationalists woke up and defeated the Western armies (Italy, Greece, the U.K, and France), driving them out of Anatolia, and taking all of the lands who were assignated to Greece and Armenia back. On the other hand, Armenians have never been independent for centuries, Armenians are independent since 1991 only, they were conquered by Romans, Byzantines and Iranians, Arabs, Mongols, Turks and Russians, and then Soviets.
What is so important about our lands?
The lands we want hold great sentimental value. That is where our genealogy began, it is where human civilization began, its where our martyred ancestors lie in unmarked graves. More importantly, the land belongs to us legally.
The lands we want hold great sentimental value. That is where our genealogy began, it is where human civilization began, its where our martyred ancestors lie in unmarked graves. More importantly, the land belongs to us legally.
What about the Kurds?
The Kurds will have a nation they may want to move to in norther Iraq or the south of Van. Those who decide to remain in our historic lands will simply have to become Armenian citizens, just as they are Turkish citizens now. If they decide to give us a hard time, then they simply have to pack and leave as well, its no big deal. In times of geo-political chaos, these things occur naturally. Israel has been able to displace close to a million Lebanese in two shot weeks. The Artsakh army was able to do the same with Azeris in 1993. The Kurds are quite disorganized and disunited, therefore Armenians need not worry much about them as a military/politcal factor.
The Kurds will have a nation they may want to move to in norther Iraq or the south of Van. Those who decide to remain in our historic lands will simply have to become Armenian citizens, just as they are Turkish citizens now. If they decide to give us a hard time, then they simply have to pack and leave as well, its no big deal. In times of geo-political chaos, these things occur naturally. Israel has been able to displace close to a million Lebanese in two shot weeks. The Artsakh army was able to do the same with Azeris in 1993. The Kurds are quite disorganized and disunited, therefore Armenians need not worry much about them as a military/politcal factor.
So, "Western Armenia" belongs to people of modern Armenia, and not to its Kurdish and Turkish inhabitants? Muslims are indigenous to this area and have inhabited it for millenia, they constitute the vast majority of its population and do not want to be a part of Armenia. But you can still dream about a powerful Armenian military which would conquer Turkey to realise your senseless dreams, considering the extreme weakness of Armenia, it seems like it is just a fantasy.
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