Artsakh
The following letter is in response to the April 3 op-ed by Saul Anuzis. In the fall of 2020, the jihadist regime of Azerbaijan with the backing of the jihadist Turkish Republic invaded the Armenian territory of Artsakh and engaged in ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity against Armenian civilians. The war crimes conducted by the Azerbaijanis did not get a mention in this deceitful commentary.
It is abundantly clear that in the name of the horrific and tragic war playing out in Ukraine, that propaganda on behalf of Turkey and Azerbaijan is going to be uncritically accepted by the media. Armenia is a peaceful democratic republic that is struggling to survive against hostile and dangerous regimes in Baku and Ankara. Armenians survived the Turkish orchestrated genocide one century ago and are still facing an existential threat to their physical existence from these two dictatorships. Azerbaijani officials have threatened to attack nuclear plants in Armenia.
In addition to this, Turkey, which is the sponsor of Azerbaijan, has been threatening Greece by putting forward claims to the islands belonging to Greece. Turkey has also invaded and continues to occupy 37% of Cyprus, where the Turkish army ethnically cleansed over 200,000 Greek Cypriots in 1974. There are many who are able to read through and comprehend the sinister foreign influences that motivated the aforementioned op-ed.
Theodore Karakostas