In my opinion, the views of Armen Martirosyan, the director of Antares Publishing House, are highly controversial, and, for example, they often make me want to debate them. I do not think that Armenia should build its relations with Turkey and Azerbaijan on the basis of Mr. Martirosyan’s ideas. But he is neither a state official nor even a politician, so that what he says or writes becomes a subject of wide discussion, and whoever wants to can discuss them. The others do not pay attention. By the way, I do not identify his views with the views of either the first president or the current prime minister (if in the second case they exist at all).
What I am categorically against is to generate hatred and enmity against any person, whether he is a member of the Republican Party, the Civil Contract, the ARF Dashnaktsutyun, or the ANC. Do you remember, for example, what kind of mass psychosis was organized against Shushan Petrosyan or Margarit Yesayan? It was ugly, cynical, insulting human dignity (not to those women, but to those who fall into that psychosis). Those who encourage such hysteria must understand that sooner or later they will become the target of such “obstruction.” And, as I have written several times, the inflammation of those feelings directly affects the society and the state.
I am also against the primitive opposition between “anti-Turkification” and “advocate of Turkification,” which has value only from a propaganda point of view, as it evokes appropriate emotions among the masses. It is still understandable when an ordinary citizen makes judgments using these categories. But when the human rights activist says that those who fought against Turkification saw the advocate of Turkification and hit him, it is already a cause for concern, because the one who presents such a primitive image really understands everything.
This government will change, if not under the influence of this “revolutionary movement,” then under the influence of other similar events in the future. Of course, it is desirable for the government to change at least once through elections, but I do not believe in that, to be honest. And what is not changing yet is attacking people for their views, in physical and virtual space, running after the point of view of the real or imagined majority. I consider this to be the most fundamental question. Not only in Armenia.
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