Ongoing Crisis in Armenia

With the world focused on the ongoing wars in Gaza and Ukraine, many are forgetting that conflict is still raging between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and the situation there is getting increasingly worse.  From 2020-2023 Azeri forces drove virtually the entire Armenian population out of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, but they haven't stopped there.  With backing from Turkey, the very nation that tried to wipe out the Armenians along with their entire Christian population in 1915, is now backing Azeri attacks across the frontiers of Eastern-Armenia.  


Ever since retaking the Nagorno-Karabakh region Azerbaijan began launching attacks along southern Armenia in Sept. of 2022.  Azerbaijan has since occupied several dozen square miles of Armenian territory.  In one of the more recent skirmishes on Feb. 13, 2024, Azeri forces killed four Armenian soldiers in Armenia's Syunik Province.  Presently National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken are trying to resolve the dispute and establish diplomacy and economic cooperation between the nations, the prospect of a lasting peace seems to be an illusion as it's being driven by two evil ideologies: Pan-Turkism & Islamism.  

Armenian Territory Occupied by Azerbaijan

Pan-Turkism arose in force prior the the outbreak of the First World War with Turkish leasers seeking to unite all the Turkish peoples from the Balkans to Central Asia all the way to portions of China & Siberia.  The Armenia people were seen as an obstacle to this goal and the Turks decided to remove it by simply eliminating them entirely.  That goal did not end with the end of the war.  Turkish Present Erdogan expressed great enthusiasm when his Coalition partner, Devlet Bacheli, who is a leader of Turkey's National Movement Party, gave him a map of "Grand Turan."  Moreover, Heydar Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan from 1993-2003 described their nations alliance with Turkey as "one nation, two states."  For both nations, the realization of this "Greater Turan" is being impeded by the existence of another nation in between the two: Armenia, which is why both nations refuse to recognize Armenia despite the fact that the Azeris recaptured the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.  



The nation has not only been offering arms support to Azerbaijan, but they've facilitated the transportation of Jihadist mercenaries from the conflicts in Syria & Libya to cross their borders and engage the Armenians in the conflict.  Once of these captured mercenaries confessed that he had been offered $2000 a month to fight, plus a $100 bonus for each "Kafir" that he beheaded.  Reports from conflict zones also revealed numerous atrocities committed against Armenian civilians that included torturing and killing Armenians citizens, and raping, mutilating, & killing captured female Armenian soldiers.  By Jan. 01, 2024, the Azeri victory was made complete with the expulsion of over 120,000 Armenians from the Nagorno-Karabakh and the complete dissolving of the Armenia Republic of Artsakh.  

Anush Abetyan: Raped & Murdered by Azeri Forces

Even as the Armenians were subjected to brutal killing and expulsion from their lands, the Azeris carried out the deliberate destruction of Armenian cultural sites, which included Azeri soldiers standing on top of Armenian churches and breaking while screaming "Allahu Akbar."   These actions, coupled with the accusation by the Azeris that Eastern Armenia is actually "Western Azerbaijan" along with Turkish President's goal of increasing the Islamization of his own nation (notably the re-conversion of the Hagia Sophia back into a Mosque) clearly illustrates that while the leaders of both nations try to place a "secularist façade" when dealing with Western diplomats, they are in truth engaged in a "behind-the-scenes" agenda of Islamization.  


Sources:

Bulut, Uzay.  "Pan-Turkism & Islamism Drive Azerbaijani & Turkish Aggression Against Armenians."  Coptic Solidarity International.  Feb. 14, 2024.  Accessed from https://www.copticsolidarity.org/2024/02/14/pan-turkism-and-islamism-drive-azerbaijani-and-turkish-aggression-against-armenians/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=eb1cdb3b-64bd-4174-aefd-170a1e7b7ad9.

Ibrahim, Raymond.  "Is a New Armenian Genocide on the Horizon?"  Coptic Solidarity International.  Feb. 28, 2024.  Accessed from https://www.copticsolidarity.org/2024/02/28/is-a-new-armenian-genocide-on-the-horizon/.


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