Armenian Ambassador to U.S. Responds to Washington Post Article

Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia should apologize from neighboring Azerbaijan for occupying one fifth of Azeri land since 1991. One million Azeris have been living in leaky tents for 15 years. Tens of thousands of Azeris were killed ferociously by Armenians under the leadership of (then general) Robert Kocharian. They called their victims Turks while assulting these Azeris.

More than 1.5 million Armenians had to flee the Republic of Armenia due to heavy handed governace of same Robert Kocharian in the last 10 years. Why go back 90 years?

How can Turkey establish normal relations with a country which has claims over her land? Armenia should stop referring to Eastern Anatolia as Western Armenia. Turkey's borders were drawn as a result of bloody wars. They won fair and square. Armenia should accpet Lauzanne Treaty and stop demanding recognition of some fictitious 'genocide' allegation that they have not been able to prove yet.

Turkey needs to have the courage to face its past. How far can you go running from truth and justice. Turkey is no better than Germany that had the courage to recognize Jewish genocide. Turks should know that their ancestors have been very brutal and unjust toward armenians. To this day they don't tolerate minorities' rights. You guys have to just reflect on these issues a little before blaming Armenia.

Well the government of Azerbaijan should spend the billion they spent on weapons from oil revenues on proper housing for there IDPs. The result of a war that the government of Azerbaijan started should not fall on the shoulders of Armenians.

Occupying one fifth of AZERI LAND???? What kind of drugs are you Turks taking? You hallucinations are growing by the day. Let me make a correction for you and inform you of the REAL history of the region: Most of "Azerbaijan" and half of "Turkey" are Armenian lands. They always have been and in Armenian minds always will be. You cannot do anything to change these facts. History was written long before you even showed up. You can, however, act as the terrorists that you are and continue to illegally occupy these lands with your savage and uncivilized Turkish population. And for your information the rest of "Turkey" belongs to Greece, whose lands you are also illegally occupying. And since you supposedly won these lands in wars "fair and square" then in the future it should be safe to assume that if your "countries" are destroyed and your mongrel population wiped out then you should not complain at all... because that would also be "fair and square". The rest of your surviving lousy Turk population can then go to central Asia where you came from.

Tigran,

Stop hating the Turks. It's not healthy. I realize that many Armenians hate Turks, mostly because they're Muslims, but it's time for you to get over it. As to what happened: it was terrible. Turkey doesn't deny that. However, that doesn't mean it's genocide.

You should also stop comparing it to what happened to the Jews. As Bernard Lewis said: "In this particular case, the point that was being made was that the massacre of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire was the same as what happened to the Jews in Nazi Germany. And that is a downright falsehood. What happened to the Armenians was the result of a massive Armenian armed rebellion against the Turks, which began even before war broke out and continued on a larger scale. Great numbers of Armenians, including members of the armed forces deserted, crossed the frontier and joined the Russian forces invading Turkey. Armenian rebels actually seized the city of Van and held it for a while intending to hand it over to the invaders. There was guerrilla warfare all over Anatolia. This was, what we nowadays call a national liberation movement of the Armenians against Turkey. And the Turks certainly resorted to very ferocious methods in repelling it. There is clear evidence of a decision by the Turkish government to deport the Armenian population from the sensitive areas. Which meant virtually the whole of Anatolia. Not including the Arab provinces which were then still part of the Ottoman Empire. There is no evidence of a decision to massacre. On the contrary there is considerable evidence of attemps to prevent it, which were not very successful. Yes there were tremendous massacres, the numbers are very uncertain but 1.5 million may indeed be likely; the massacres were carried out by irregulars, by local villagers responding to what had been done to them, and a number of other ways. But to make this a parallel with the holocaust in Germany you would have to assume that the Jews of Germany had been engaged in an armed rebellion against the German state; Collaborating with the allies against Germany; that in the deportation order the cities of Hamburg and Berlin were exempted; that persons in the employment of the state were excempted; and that the deportation only applied to the Jews of Germany proper, so that when they got to Poland they were welcomed and sheltered by Polish Jews. This seems to me a rather absurd parallel."

It's also remarkable that you guys always insult everyone who dares disagree with your twisted version of what happened. When someone, for instance, poitns out that Armenians killed tens of thousands of innocent Muslims, y'all rebel, acting as if that's a logical result of civil war. When the Turks say the same, however, the situation is different suddenly. Strange that.

When will the Armenians accept the offer of Erdogan? When will they open the archives and let historians do what they do best?