{"id":5490,"date":"2025-04-18T19:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T16:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armtribunal.com\/?p=5490"},"modified":"2025-04-18T19:45:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T16:45:25","slug":"otricaja-genocid-pashinjan-vedet-armeniju-pod-tureckij-jatagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armtribunal.com\/en\/2025\/04\/18\/otricaja-genocid-pashinjan-vedet-armeniju-pod-tureckij-jatagan\/","title":{"rendered":"By Denying Genocide, Pashinyan Hands Armenia to the Turkish Yatagan"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Denying Genocide, Pashinyan Hands Armenia to the Turkish Yatagan<\/h1>
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\u2014 Hrant Matevosyan<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

\u201cWhat sets a human apart from an animal is memory. Memory is what makes one human. If you have memory, you\u2019re still living through it \u2014 you\u2019re human, you have scores to settle, you\u2019re troubled. But if you\u2019ve lost your memory, just look: there\u2019s a cow calmly grazing, though her calf was slaughtered only yesterday.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014 Hrant Matevosyan<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n

The period of Nikol Pashinyan\u2019s governance has been marked by a series of defeats and humiliations for the Armenian people. Perhaps nothing is more degrading than the current political leadership's efforts to nullify decades of struggle for the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. This is happening even though many countries have already acknowledged the Genocide, and even criminalized its denial. Under the guise of his \u201cEra of Peace\u201d doctrine, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan\u2019s government is pursuing a policy that aims to sever the Armenian people from their historical memory. To borrow the words of Hrant Matevosyan, the \u201cvelvet authorities\u201d are trying to turn the Armenian people into that memoryless animal\u2014grazing quietly, indifferent to the past, stripped of grief, fear, and the will to seek justice. They want Armenians to forget their innocently massacred sons, to stop worrying about the repetition of genocide, and to make no claims against those who committed it. A striking example of this approach was Pashinyan\u2019s ignorant, anti-scientific, and anti-civilizational speech delivered on April 24, 2024\u2014Genocide Memorial Day. Here is an excerpt from that address:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis large-scale tragedy took place during the years of the World War I, and the Armenian people, who had no statehood, had lost their statehood centuries ago, and essentially had forgotten the tradition of statehood, became victims of geopolitical intrigues and false promises, lacking first of all a political mind capable of making the world and its rules understandable.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In fact, Nikol Pashinyan, on behalf of the Republic of Armenia, has absolved Turkey of responsibility for the Armenian Genocide, instead placing the blame on geopolitical actors and the na\u00efve Armenian people, whom he describes as \"lacking a political mind\", for the \"large-scale tragedy\"<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n

Another striking example of the Armenian government\u2019s renunciation of its historical memory is Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s statement made on April 23, on the eve of Armenian Genocide Memorial Day:<\/p>\n

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\u201cNow, a new order is being established in the region. It is time to abandon baseless memories and to act based on the realities of the present, which is better than moving forward with fictional historical narratives that are disconnected from reality. Pashinyan now understands this as well,\u201d Interfax quotes Erdogan as saying<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n

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In January 2025, during a meeting with the Armenian Diaspora in Zurich, the Prime Minister of Armenia once again cast doubt on the fact of the Genocide:<\/p>\n

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\u00ab\u2018We should return to the issue of the Armenian Genocide. We must understand what happened and why, how we perceived it, and who influenced our perception. How did it happen that in 1939 the genocide issue wasn\u2019t on the agenda, but by 1950 it had appeared on it?\u2019 TASS quotes Pashinyan as saying.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n

Nikol Pashinyan\u2019s supporter and Civil Contract Party member Andranik Kocharyan went even further, casting doubt on the widely accepted number of Genocide victims.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAfter all, we need a full list of the victims\u2014maybe there were more, maybe fewer than the 1.5 million we\u2019ve long believed,\u201d he said<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n