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Labor Pain
asbarez
Friday, July 29th, 2011
BY GAREN YEGPARIAN
No, this article is not about the injustice being heaped upon working
people in many states of the U.S. Rather it's about the aches and
agony, self-inflicted, that Turkey seems to relish. One has to wonder
if that's not the reason that country's chauvinistic `republican'
government has `renamed' Armenia's stolen mountain `AÄ?rı DaÄ?ı.'
In case you were not aware, Ararat, in Turkey is officially named that
obscenity. `AÄ?rı' means labor pain or ache, according to the online
Turkish-English dictionary I consulted. How offensive that our
usurped national symbol is called something as unpleasant as pain!
But Turkey seems to enjoy pain. How else can we explain their
spending huge amounts of money and energy lying, covering up, and
denying the Genocide while simultaneously maintaining their occupation
of our lands? Turks complain of being `maligned' by us and others,
but last I checked, telling the truth isn't the same as maligning
someone. The solution is simple, and the pain (and the analogously
misnamed mountain along with it) goes away! Fess up, pay up, back up
(of our lands, that is)!
It's funny that Erdoghan (Turkey's Prime Minister) has seen fit to
bash Serzh Sarkissian over the latter's response to a student's
question while he was visiting a school. Responding to whether or not
we'd ever get Ararat back, Sarkissian said it was up to the student's
generation to liberate it, just as a portion of Armenia (Artzakh) was
liberated by the current generation.
Erdoghan interprets this as a lack of interest by Sarkissian in
achieving peace. A quick switcheroo, and Erdoghan is instructing
Armenia to resolve its issues with Azerbaijan, only after which will
Turkey open its border with Armenia. Plus, a Turkish Foreign Ministry
spokesperson claims Sarkissian is provoking `an ideology of hostility
and hatred among societies.' I suppose genocidal and denialist
policies are manifestations of amity and love among societies.
This is the ridiculousness and absurdity we face as Armenians. Share
this laughable situation with non-Armenian friends so they better
appreciate our predicament. Heap derision on Turkey's rulers. You
can even add the policy, of renaming places, adopted by the Ottomans
and continued by their current denialist political progeny. That
policy is just another way of erasing any hint of our presence in our
homeland, the Armenia Plateau. Interestingly, Kurds have engaged in a
campaign to restore place names to their pre-forced-changed origins.
If they're successful, we'll have to thank them because a majority of
those names will be Armenian ones!
Enjoy the Turkish PM's pathetic commentaries. Share them with a huge
helping of ridicule with your friends.
http://asbarez.com/97375/labor-pain/
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
asbarez
Friday, July 29th, 2011
BY GAREN YEGPARIAN
No, this article is not about the injustice being heaped upon working
people in many states of the U.S. Rather it's about the aches and
agony, self-inflicted, that Turkey seems to relish. One has to wonder
if that's not the reason that country's chauvinistic `republican'
government has `renamed' Armenia's stolen mountain `AÄ?rı DaÄ?ı.'
In case you were not aware, Ararat, in Turkey is officially named that
obscenity. `AÄ?rı' means labor pain or ache, according to the online
Turkish-English dictionary I consulted. How offensive that our
usurped national symbol is called something as unpleasant as pain!
But Turkey seems to enjoy pain. How else can we explain their
spending huge amounts of money and energy lying, covering up, and
denying the Genocide while simultaneously maintaining their occupation
of our lands? Turks complain of being `maligned' by us and others,
but last I checked, telling the truth isn't the same as maligning
someone. The solution is simple, and the pain (and the analogously
misnamed mountain along with it) goes away! Fess up, pay up, back up
(of our lands, that is)!
It's funny that Erdoghan (Turkey's Prime Minister) has seen fit to
bash Serzh Sarkissian over the latter's response to a student's
question while he was visiting a school. Responding to whether or not
we'd ever get Ararat back, Sarkissian said it was up to the student's
generation to liberate it, just as a portion of Armenia (Artzakh) was
liberated by the current generation.
Erdoghan interprets this as a lack of interest by Sarkissian in
achieving peace. A quick switcheroo, and Erdoghan is instructing
Armenia to resolve its issues with Azerbaijan, only after which will
Turkey open its border with Armenia. Plus, a Turkish Foreign Ministry
spokesperson claims Sarkissian is provoking `an ideology of hostility
and hatred among societies.' I suppose genocidal and denialist
policies are manifestations of amity and love among societies.
This is the ridiculousness and absurdity we face as Armenians. Share
this laughable situation with non-Armenian friends so they better
appreciate our predicament. Heap derision on Turkey's rulers. You
can even add the policy, of renaming places, adopted by the Ottomans
and continued by their current denialist political progeny. That
policy is just another way of erasing any hint of our presence in our
homeland, the Armenia Plateau. Interestingly, Kurds have engaged in a
campaign to restore place names to their pre-forced-changed origins.
If they're successful, we'll have to thank them because a majority of
those names will be Armenian ones!
Enjoy the Turkish PM's pathetic commentaries. Share them with a huge
helping of ridicule with your friends.
http://asbarez.com/97375/labor-pain/
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress