DEMAND FOR “AZERI AUTONOMY IN ARMENIA” NOT SERIOUS
PanARMENIAN.Net
19.04.2006 19:47 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Azerbaijan cannot invent anything new and the
demand for “formation of Azeri autonomy in Armenia” is not serious,
leader of ARF Dashnaktsutyun faction, historian Levon Mkrtchian told
PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. In his words, Turkey practiced such line
in 1950-1960-ies when Armenian and Greek cultural monuments were
announced Turkish and Kurds were named “mountainous Turks”.
“Certainly the international community did not take it serious
and Turkey abandoned ottomanization of the peoples living on its
territory. Azerbaijan follows this way now. It fails to understand
that the world has changed and statements of the kind arouse nothing
but bewilderment,” Mkrtchian said.
He also informed that ARF Dashnaktsutyun faction has introduced
to parliament the draft bill “On rehabilitation of repressed and
displaced Armenians in 1931-1949, who later repatriated to Armenia”
To remind, “Azerbaijan’s Path” political movement has formed an
initiative group for returning “western Azeris, who were expelled
from Armenia in 1948-53 and 1988, to their homeland and granting
them autonomy”.