Kitabı oku: «Armenian Acts of Cultural Terrorism», sayfa 2

I hereby take the opportunity to wholeheartedly congratulate Cafer Qiyasi, author and architect of Azerbaijan, and İbrahim Bozyel, author, lawyer and president of Iğdır Azerbaijani-Turkish Cultural Association, on this wonderful and extremely valuable joint work.

We send our special gratitudes to the president of the "BAGHLAN" Group Mammadov Hafiz Madjid because of his non-substitutive assistance in the publishing of this book.

EDITORIAL

ARMENIAN ACTS OF CULTURAL TERRORISM PRACTISED ON AZERBAIJANI-TURKISH CULTURE

The following verses by Hüsein Cavid, the great poet of Azerbaijan, who stood accused of having pan-Turkist inclinations and was sent to Siberia in exile, provide an impressive metaphorical description of societies undergoing structural deformation as well as the impasse endured by ambitious people and nations:

Lames are practicing dancing.

Cowards they are, only keen on boasting- if not arrogance!

A weak and incompetent pretender aspiring to more than he is may become perilous for those in his realm at the earliest opportunity. Similarly, a relatively small nation having claims of power becomes a constant trouble to its neighbors. Even though they experienced such problematic instances, as was the case with Armenians, Azerbaijani Turks failed to learn from the disasters they were led into, and never took the due cautions to keep away from them.

The inherent Armenian aggressiveness and cruelty of a malicious character stem from their history. Armenians have always lived under the hegemony of a superior power. That is, they long lacked an established tradition of political independence. Throughout their history, their social status had been that of a servant and this involved a slavish lifestyle dominated by successive masters. The Romans, Persians, Byzantines, Arabs, Ottoman Turks, Russians… Whenever a new master took over, Armenians rebelled against the former. As reported by the Russian scholar V.L. Velicko, Armenians systematically betrayed their own masters¹ (V.L. Velicko: Kavkaz, Baku, p. 75.). This perpetual sense of affinity with slavery prevailed over more human qualities -such as nobility and magnanimity, thereby allowing such negative qualities as appetite for power, jealousy, and hypocrisy to emerge.

This small nation, which created the myth of Great Armenia and chronically failed to realize this ambitious aspiration, was struck down by delusions of grandeur, and trapped itself into an ecstasy of self destruction. Armenians voraciously adopted the material and spiritual heritage of the Near Eastern people. This was realized in order to base their claims of grandeur and immortality, which stemmed from their slavish dreams, on empirically acceptable principles. In addition, they wanted to disguise their professionally fabricated lies, and turn the history of Old Age to their own advantage. In the last century, Armenians and Armenian scholars called for a nation-wide maneuver to create historically and scholarly acceptable arguments explaining the motives behind the map of Great Armenia faked by Russian politicians. Armenian politicians, as well as the intellectual elite, chose terrorism, a clear indication of cowardliness, weakness and fear, as their medium of struggle. They embarked on a massive destruction of the Turkish historical and cultural heritage in the area plotted as Armenia on the imaginary map mentioned earlier. Since this particular land had long belonged to Azerbaijan throughout its entire history, such acts of terrorism were, in fact, directed to Azerbaijani-Turkish cultural heritage. Armenian attacks on Turkish cultural heritage have been carried out in several different ways: