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Azerbaijan's multiculturalism fight against Armenian terrorism

29 June 2016 [15:31] - TODAY.AZ

/By Azernews/

By Amina Nazarli

A round-table entitled “The Armenian terrorism and Azerbaijani multiculturalism” supported by the Baku International Multiculturalism Center (BIMC), Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, the Knowledge Fund under the Azerbaijani President, the State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations, the Science Development Fund under the President of Azerbaijan and the State Committee on Work with Diaspora of Azerbaijan was held in Baku on June 28.

The round-table was organized as a part of the “Terror Against Multiculturalism” project.

Along with the local experts, the event was attended also by the foreign scientists, investigators of the Armenian terrors.

BIMC head, Professor Kamal Abdullayev, opening the event, stated that the aim of the event is to show the world that the Armenian terror is directed against the humanity.

The state counselor noted that to capture the Azerbaijani lands, Armenian terrorist and separatist groups developed a multi-vector and complex doctrine entitled "Armenian terrorism ". He said that Armenian terrorism begins to act on a fertile ground, that lacks multicultural environment, ethnic and religious diversity.

“In the early 20th century, Armenian nationalists invented myths about "Great Armenia" and "Armenian genocide", and carried out policy of genocide in the area from eastern Anatolia to Fergana against the innocent civilian population, regardless of language, religion, age and sex. Millions of people including Anatolian Turks, Uzbeks, Turkmens, Persians, and peoples living in Azerbaijan - Azerbaijanis, Lezgins, Tats, Jews, Kurds, Germans, Russian, Georgians and even Armenians themselves became victims of Armenian terrorism. On hearing this, I was surprised, but the fact remains. Based on it, we can say that the Armenian terrorism is the systematic activities against humanity as a whole,” Kamal Abdullayev said.

He further went on to speak about traditions of multiculturalism in Azerbaijan, saying that multiculturalism, as a way of life of the Azerbaijani people, has come a long historical path and become one of the major policies of the state.

“But this path of development has historically faced a "black bar" - terrorism. Armenian terrorism became the main bloody obstacle on the way of multiculturalism. Until 1965, Armenian terrorists have not talked about the reasons for Armenian terrorism perpetrated throughout the 20th century, then as its reason, they showed the fictional "Armenian genocide" and under this pretext, they continued their crimes,” he said.

Armenians say allegedly some 1.5 million of their people were killed in a “genocidal campaign” by Ottoman forces ordered by Minister of War Enver Pasha and other top officials to wipe them from Anatolia.

Ankara, in turn categorically, denies the term "genocide", insisting that the Turks and the Armenians both suffered in the clashes, when Armenians joined forces with invading Russian troops in the hope of carving out their own state.

Director of the History Institute, Professor Yagub Mahmudov, addressing the event, highly appreciated the importance of the "Terror Against Multiculturalism" project, describing the round table as a successful step towards finding an answer to a number of issues.

Mahmudov reminded the participants that the Armenian nation was settled in the Caucasus by decision of the Russian Emperor Peter I for occupation purposes.

"Founded in 1918, the first Armenian state put forward territorial claims to Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Before Armenians settled in this region, peoples here had coexisted peacefully," the professor stressed.

Speaking at the event Michael Gunther, Professor of the Sociology and Political Sciences Department of the Tennessee Technology University (USA) also blamed Armenian terrorism.

“Armenians accuse Turks and other Turkic-speaking peoples living in the region, in commitment of genocide. Most Armenians believe in this fiction because they do not know their own history,” he voiced.

Russian political analyst Oleg Kuznetsov, in turn, called modern Armenia the product of terrorism.

“Armenian terrorism has special specific features, and its hallmark is transnationality -- it is when statehood borders and the principles of humanity are not taken in the account,” the political analyst noted.

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