Following the siege of ethnically Armenian Artsakh, a.k.a. Nagorno-Karabakh, by Azerbaijani forces, at least half of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh is fleeing to Armenia. In response, Azerbaijan is making a global show and urging Armenians to stay and “benefit from planned rebuilding and infrastructure projects.” Elin Suleymanov, Azerbaijan’s ambassador to Britain, also stated that Azerbaijan “had not yet had a chance to prove what he said was its genuine commitment to provide secure and better living conditions for those ethnic Armenians who choose to stay.”
Armenia is 98% Christian, while Azerbaijan is approximately 97% Muslim. Armenians have learned from their persecution historically.Islam has a long tradition of taqiyya, and Armenians have a deep, justifiable distrust of Azerbaijani authorities; they fear persecution, ethnic cleansing, and even genocide.
Following Azerbaijan’s meteoric offensive and occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh on September 19, Armenian Artsakh “separatist authorities announced that the ethnic Armenian enclave would dissolve on January 1, 2024.”
After the incursion, Azerbaijan arrested Ruben Vardanyan, former head of Nagorno-Karabakh’s government, as he tried to cross over the border into Armenia, along with tens of thousands of other refugees. Vardanyan was taken to Azerbaijan’s capital Baku, and now faces an unknown future.
Armenians have a bitter history with Islam. In 1915, over two million Armenians were murdered via mass executions and deliberate starvation by the Turks, which Turkey still denies to this day. Hundreds of thousands became “homeless and stateless refugees. By 1923 virtually the entire Armenian population of Anatolian Turkey had disappeared.”
Turkey supports Azerbaijan, and although it denies having any role in the latest Nagorno-Karabakh offensive, Turkey provided military training to Azerbaijan. It is also noteworthy that arms sales from Turkey to Azerbaijan surged before Nagorno-Karabakh fighting broke out in 2020.
Also, on September 27, at least 125 were killed in a bomb blast, according to Armenia’s health minister, Anahit Avanesyan. The victims were fleeing to Armenia, and their bodies have been transported there.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that “what was happening was the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian population.”
Since the hope of a home in Nagorno-Karabakh is now gone, Armenians are wise to flee persecution, despite the lie from Azerbaijan that Armenians will gain by staying put.
Already, about 70,500 out of an estimated population of 120,000 Armenians have already crossed from Artsakh into Armenia.
The Nagorno-Karabakh offensive, supported by Turkey, is another win for Islamic expansion.
bagsgroove says
Don’t the Turks have anything better to do than cause trouble to their neighbors ?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
No. They haven’t throughout their 1000 year history
Hoi Polloi says
Please, please stay, he said. Azerbaijan “had not yet had a chance to prove what he said was its genuine commitment to” [fully employing] “Turkey provided military training to Azerbaijan” [and] “arms sales from Turkey.”
IOW, they haven’t yet finished with Armenians as target practice and Turkey wants yet another act tacked onto its genocide denial theater piece.
GreekEmpress says
+1
Hoi Polloi says
Thanks.
somehistory says
mozlums must have infidels…preferably Christians and Jews….to murder; otherwise, they have to murder each other.
mozlums need a constant supply of people to rape, mistreat in various ways, and murder. they don’t want these Christians to leave because it will greatly lower the people they can easily slaughter.
Hoi Polloi says
Ain’t that the truth.
bobc says
Yeah, right. Turks did that too, 110 years ago
GreekEmpress says
The rest better get to Armenia and quickly. If my family hadn’t gotten out of Anatolia when they did, I probably wouldn’t be posting on JW now. Or anywhere else for that matter.
And my guess is you will never hear anything more about Ruben Vardanyan. The Azeris could have let him go, but they didn’t. As soon as the world looks away, he’s done for.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I hope Ruben Vardaryan makes it out of there, maybe through diplomatic efforts
And I agree w/ you – all Armenians should hightail it to Armenia. Otherwise, their lot will be similar to Christians, Hindus & Sikhs in Pakistan
Gurek says
One could argue that the Turkish leadership represents the most extremist, horrific version of Islam. Arab Muslims do not commit such a terrible tragedy today. In the same way, it can be claimed that Turks are infidels according to Islam. There is nothing that Turks understand about Islam. They are only using Islam for their own interests. The Arabs were crushed under the heel of the Ottoman Turks and rightly rebelled against them with the help of the British. The Arabs know the pain caused by the Ottomans. My point is that even Arab Muslims do not commit such a terrible act today while the Turkish leadership do so. More royalist than the king…
Aum says
Any comment from Pope Francis?
Any comment from Archbishop of Canterbury?
OIC – any comment?
Sebastien Zorn says
But Azerbaijan is allied with Israel and Armenia with Iran. Moreover, it was Armenia that invaded Azeri territory, drove out a million Azeris and replaced them with Armenian settlers. Armenia is deeply antisemitic and has no diplomatic relations with Israel. Azerbaijan has no history of
Institutionalized antisemitism and has at least two thriving Jewish communities, a more recent Ashkenazic one and an ancient Bukharan. It’s the safest place in the region for Jews.