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Ishan Verdiyan's message to Armenians
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Armenian media is terrorizing its own people and threatening Armenians with Azerbaijan and Turkey. It's impossible not to notice. 1/ https://twitter.com/JosefGasim/status/1360315821390782474
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Summary:
Armenian media is terrorizing its own people and threatening Armenians with Azerbaijan and Turkey. It's impossible not to notice. 1/ https://twitter.com/JosefGasim/status/1360315821390782474
We know because of whose order this is happening. It's the same forces that created the horror in Karabagh and are maintaining it still there. Pashinyan wants to solve this problem properly, but they're not letting him by scaring Armenians using fakes and disinformation. 2/
Aliyev's speech was purposefully incorrectly translated in Armenian media. 3/
Verdiyan: Armenians are taught to hate Turks from their childhood. I only changed my opinion about Turks because I visited Turkey. Armenians don't have a physical possibility not to hate Turks because of the brainwashing. 4/
Verdiyan: Turks and Armenians were very friendly and even brotherly nations for centuries until a wedge was pushed between them. Think of WW2 - can you remember any instance of when there was enmity between Azerbaijanis and Armenians then? 5/
Verdiyan: Don't be angry at Armenians because they hate Turks. If you were taught to hate something from your childhood and only had one source of information and only listened to negative things over and over, you'd have the same hateful attitude. 6/
Verdiyan: It's not because they are nazis, but because they are constantly being brainwashed to be afraid of Turks. Turcophobia is everywhere and starts from children, from schools. Everywhere. 7/
Verdiyan: Armenians don't have a chance to get out of this. Azerbaijanis will have to help here. Don't turn away from us. Just interact normally with us, talk to us about regular daily things. Let's just talk like civilized people. 8/
Verdiyan: A united Caucasus can be one of the most developed places in the world, but they're not letting us. 9/
Verdiyan: Armenians live in Istanbul very well. Ask any Armenian if he/she had any problems while living in Turkey. Nobody had any problems living in Turkey. 10/
Verdiyan: We shouldn't forget about Khojali, but let's not take revenge for it. Once we have normal relationships between two countries, we can normally discuss and solve all these problems. Compensations can be paid. 11/
Verdiyan: There were/are a lot of provocations to ensure that these nations are enemies with each other. 12/
Verdiyan: There is no point remembering century-old hurts. 1915 was the same thing as what Stalin did. 200K Armenian deaths were registered during Stalin before the WW2. Isn't that genocide too? Should we just go and demand reparations from Russia too? 13/
Verdiyan: They say "what about 1915". I'm asking then what about 1937? 14/
Verdiyan: Are we going to live another 200 years like this? What does this remembering give you? 15/
Verdiyan: Erdogan said directly that Turkey will open all of its archives, let Armenia open its Archives and take all international scientists, and come study them, we will pay if you can prove. All we had to do is just do this and prove it. Why didn't Armenia agree to this? 16/
Verdiyan: We both want peace. But somehow we can't get it. Let's just interact with each other. We can solve it together and turn the Caucasus together with Georgians into a pearl of the world. 17/
Verdiyan: We can have the same relations with Az/Tur that Georgians have. We just need to calm down. For Armenia to get better, Az/Tur don't need to get worse. They are our neighbors. We need to forget all the fascism. We need to calm down and just talk to each other. 18/
Verdiyan: Caucasus needs to become a peaceful and safe region. We need to talk to each other because we don't know each other. Armenians think Azerbaijani are fascists, and Azerbaijanis think Armenians are cannibals. Well I don't know how Azerbaijanis think of Armenians, 19/
Verdiyan: but I know that Armenians are taught to hate Azerbaijanis. They are being hypnotized. It's a huge special operation. The whole nation is being transformed. A brother turned into an enemy. 20/
Verdiyan: That Azerbaijani who told me that he changed his opinion and now he's interacting with Armenians normally - this is what we need to achieve. 21/
