Originally posted by ATSIZ
So what you're saying is that Armenians can have no claim to Armenia because the proper name for Armenians is of course Hayk, at least in the Armenian language?
Ok, so a place called Turkey and a people know as the Turks did not exist prior to 1923 because were they were called Ottomans, so by your reasoning, they cannot have claims to former Ottoman lands.
The Hayk (from the people of Hayk, the originator of our nation)were called Armenians by others because we had a leader named Armen who the Persians fought a war with a recognized to be our king. The area where the Persians recognized where we lived, the domain of Armen (which Armenians call "Hayastan" then and now), was located in what is today eastern Turkey.
Convoluted reasoning and a game of semantics.
In the US we call your nation Turkey although you recognize it is Turkiye
THe Croatias call themsleves the Hrav, the Georgians call their nation Sakartvelo, etc.
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