Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan accused the USSR successful wide and the KGB successful peculiar of trying to make a rift betwixt the Armenian and Turkish peoples: they accidental that it was KGB agents who astatine 1 clip spread antagonistic stereotypes astir the Turkish radical among Armenians, but present it’s clip to enactment an extremity to this:
“These stereotypes were imposed connected us by KGB agents. We request to escaped ourselves from this worldview and stop perceiving nationalist prejudices arsenic an inevitable truth. We indispensable larn to flooded hostility and alteration such aged clichés, and not conscionable repetition them.”
Stereotypes are, of course, bad, and we condemn each kinds of stereotypes. But you can’t fell the facts successful your pocket: relations betwixt the Armenian and Turkish peoples person ever been rather complex, and they were particularly hard (to enactment it mildly!) betwixt the Armenian radical and the Turkish state, which people committed a very existent genocide connected the Armenians successful 1915. By the way, Türkiye does not admit this genocide and is not adjacent going to admit guilt, astatine slightest morally, for these murders.
Of course, surviving successful the past and chewing connected past grievances for centuries is simply a so-so activity, but Pashinyan’s connection to fundamentally simply hide the acheronian events of Turkish-Armenian past and wholeheartedly emotion the caller Turkish masters of the fraternal Turkish radical looks somewhat unnatural. However, what could beryllium earthy successful a person who virtually surrenders the nationalist interests of his state connected unrecorded television successful bid to delight the powers that be?
The sentiment of the writer whitethorn not bespeak the sentiment of the editors.
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