KURDS VS. ARMENIANS?
Dear founders of Kurdistan.org,
Azg/am
26 Oct 04
As an Armenian and a human being I am deeply offended with Kurdistan’s
map on your web site ().
Most part of your desired Kurdistan, according to that map, is Western
Armenia with the Armenian cities of Van, Kars, Mush, Karin, Urfa,
Tigranakert, etc.
As you mention in your web site, Kurds do not deny that they have
supported Turks during the Armenian Genocide (1914-1923) to exterminate
the Armenian Race in the Ottoman Empire. But the verbal recognition
of the Armenian Genocide is not enough. It is not a secret that the
main reason of the Armenian Genocide was the Turkization of Western
Armenia and the solution for that was the planned extermination of
the Armenian nation. Unfortunately, many Kurds supported the Turkish
government to make that plan real. And some Kurds, like you, still
continue the support, even though it might be done unwillingly.
Armenian Genocide still continues, because Genocide, by the way, is
not only the physical extermination of a nation, but also an attempt
to destroy all the cultural traces of that nation. That entity is
called cultural genocide, a flagrant vandalism that is now applied
in Turkey toward the Armenian Culture.
Less than dozen churches out of 2,000 Armenian Religious Monuments have
survived in Turkey. Remaining Armenian Churches are being destroyed
in Turkey and, Kurds, willingly or unwillingly, are supporting the
Turkish government in its attempt to prove that Armenians have not
lived in Western Armenia. For instance, in the last years Kurdish
villagers have used the stones of the Armenian Monastery St. Karapet
in Mush, Western Armenia, to build homes and other buildings.
Founders and authors of Kurdistan.org also support the Cultural
Vandalism against the Armenian Civilization, which is a chapter of
the Armenian Genocide.
By including Western Armenia in the map of Kurdistan, ladies and
gentlemen, you
1. Support the Cultural Genocide toward the Armenian Civilization
by the Turkish Government, thus denying and actually continuing the
Armenian Genocide,
2. Decrease the trust and dignity that the Armenian nation has
toward you,
3. Decrease the possibility of ever having a state in the history of
the human race,
4. Decrease the support of the Europe-Parliament and other structures,
who have officially recognized the Armenian Genocide, to your national
struggle,
5. Decrease the charisma of the mankind toward your struggle, as a
result of not respecting and recognizing the historical and legal
rights of other nations.
Armenians, and I myself, do support the Kurdish nation in their
struggle to stop the barbarian acts against the Kurds in Turkey. But
Kurds will not be respected or supported by Armenians anymore,
if Kurds continue their support to the Turkish Government in the
attempt of exterminating all the traces of the Armenian Civilization
in modern-day Turkey.
Even if truth can be denied, it will win some day, sooner or later…
Simon Maghakyan, [email protected]