Would you be okay with giving away southern Armenia?

[Azar]

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Either you don't know the history or you're pushing buttons....


"After the loss of the European part of its empire in the Balkans, in the midst of World War I, the Ottoman Empire feared for its hold upon Anatolia itself, and decided to settle the long-unfinished business of conquest with a conscious act of genocide. But the Turks lacked the resources to do so in the midst of war, and Turkey’s military leaders enlisted Kurdish tribes to do most of the actual killing in return for Armenian land. That is why Kurds dominate eastern Turkey, which used to be called, “Western Armenia”. The Armenian genocide, in short, gave rise to what today is Turkey’s Kurdish problem. "

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IJ16Ak02.html

We can't blame all Kurds for these barbaric acts committed against Armenians.

The Kurdish people deserve their own country, they have been oppressed for millenniums.

[Mos]

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I'm surprised and deeply offended at the anti-Kurdish racism here.

I thought Kurds and Armenians were like brothers?

Brothers? What are you joking? Do you know it was Kurds who carried out the dirty work during the Genocide. Yeah some "brothers", they stole our land, killed our people, stabbed us in the back in the worst way possible and kissed Turks ass, and now they live in our ancestral homeland.

We could care less about their struggles or their lands, bunch of backward, nomadic, back stabbers are what they are...

[KanadaHye]

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We can't blame all Kurds for these barbaric acts committed against Armenians.

The Kurdish people deserve their own country, they have been oppressed for millenniums.

The Assyrians and Chaldeans deserve their own country before the Kurds. Their national aspirations were a result of other powers dangling the carrot on a stick and then pulling the stick away or else they were content with their nomadic lives.

[Azar]

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Brothers? What are you joking? Do you know it was Kurds who carried out the dirty work during the Genocide. Yeah some "brothers", they stole our land, killed our people, stabbed us in the back in the worst way possible and kissed Turks ass, and now they live in our ancestral homeland.

We could care less about their struggles or their lands, bunch of backward, nomadic, back stabbers are what they are...

Doesn't Armenia take in many Kurdish refugees? How do you feel about that?

[Federate]

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I'm surprised and deeply offended at the anti-Kurdish racism here.

I thought Kurds and Armenians were like brothers?

The only reason the Kurds accept the Armenian Genocide is because they are being massacred by Turks in the present so this is a hard qualifier to make us "brotherly" when it is kinda like an "I-told-you-so" situation. As for Armenian support of the Kurdish cause only reason you'd find such support is because the Kurds and Turks are killing each other and weakening each other. This might sound brutal and hopefully less and less civilians die but it is better for us if the conflict goes on as long as it can so both sides exhaust themselves. It is also nice to hear once in awhile Kurds blowing up segments of the BTC pipeline. After Turkey, the Kurds are going to be a bigger obstacle to eventually re-conquering Western Armenia.

[Federate]

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Doesn't Armenia take in many Kurdish refugees? How do you feel about that?

It does not... at least not that I know of. We have Yezidis (who don't identify themselves as Kurds and in fact hate them) living in Armenia and they are among our most patriotic citizens. Some served in the liberation of Artsakh.

[Mos]

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Doesn't Armenia take in many Kurdish refugees? How do you feel about that?

No it doesn't and it never will.

[gegev]

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I would like to know what diet some people are on to produce such crap threads.

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Agree, that's nasty one!

[Armanen]

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It does not... at least not that I know of. We have Yezidis (who don't identify themselves as Kurds and in fact hate them) living in Armenia and they are among our most patriotic citizens. Some served in the liberation of Artsakh.

I do not remember hearing about kurds being taken in either, if there were some, then it was very few and probably Christian kurds. Good point Fed, do not ever call a Yezdi a kurd unless you want to have your face rearranged.

[jgk3]

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If I were a Kurd, I'd claim Montreal as part of Kurdistan too, just because I've treaded there for a while.