In a conversation with Aravot.am, Gagik Ginosyan, Honored Cultural Worker of Armenia, culturologist, and dance specialist, considers the calls for peace in this situation and the calls for friendship with Turks and Azeris a form of mockery. He says that real peace can only exist without those who call for peace and with the victory of the Armenians. He also does not accept the psychology of some merchants.
“They say, ‘Let’s open a road through Syunik, we will make so much money,’ but where is the national dignity?” As for the peace agenda put forward by the authorities recently, Gagik Ginosyan emphasized, “Nzhdeh, Andranik, Mkhitar Sparapet, Davit Bek, Khrimyan Hayrik… all said that it was impossible to be friends with the Turks… At the time when the Young Turks came to power, ARF members urged Andranik to reconcile with the Turks. Andranik said, ‘You reconciled with the Turks, but let me remain irreconcilable, I can not reconcile with the Turks until my death. But I want to make a prediction for you and I want you to listen. If these so-called revolutionary Turks do not hang you one day, I am not a human being. The day will come when these revolutionaries will become a beast like Sultan Hamid and will devour you all.’ And now they do not talk about such things. Friendship with Turks is a national betrayal. And Nzhdeh used to say that one can forgive the enemy, but not the one who cut half of your nation, the one who massacred half of your nation. Now it is possible to forgive the enemy, but not the one who slaughtered your golden youth, who beheaded a Yezidi boy and used his head as a football. Forgive the enemy, but not the one who removes the eye of a living soldier… Who do they want to live in peace with? You’re demanding that we improve relations with Aliyev, who rewards the savage beast that beheads a young Armenian man today and kills and cuts the ears off of a 90-year-old woman in Talish? So I would advise them to give their grandmothers the same fate, and then call for friendship. I do not want to say harsh things, but if instead of those grandparents, it were their parents, and if it were their children instead of Kyaram Sloyan, Armenak Urfanyan, and our 5,000 golden boys, they would say today, let’s think a little, maybe they are saying something clever. Otherwise, it is immoral to preach peace at the expense of other people’s sons.”
According to the artist, “A Turk can not be a friend of an Armenian because they’ve considered us an archenemy from the beginning. They are a nation that instills hatred of Armenians in kindergarten-aged children. Preaching morality with that nation is the same as teaching a rabbit to befriend a wolf. That so-called friendship is a form of mockery.”
Gohar HAKOBYAN
