The descendants of the Genocide survivors, their sympathizers, the participants of the war, their relatives, as well as all other victims of Turkish fascism address those who force peace with our executioner at all costs, sending Armenians, Yezidis and Assyrians another genocide or ethnic cleansing.
You don’t speak in my name. You don’t speak in our names.
You – neo-colonizer activists, white feminists, foreign-funded analysts, leftist defeatists, and capitalist commodifiers of social causes; you asylum seekers in Europe, friends of those who devastated Armenia and corrupted human rights activists – shall not dare force me to submit to the executioners of my family, embrace the colonizers of my homeland, or wed those vultures who conspire to ravage our nation further.
Armenia is not located in the West you so aspire to belong to. The distance between Yerevan and Brussels is 3,300 kilometers. Yerevan is 800 km away from Baghdad and from Aleppo. It is less than 500 km from Mount Sinjar, where Turkey and its local collaborationists are continuing genocide against the Yazidi people as we type this statement.
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I don’t live in your peaceful offices. Armenia is in a region of explosions and in the midst of ongoing genocides. I know what it takes to defend myself, my family, and our nation against genocide and fascism, while you seek to rob me of my defenses through a deceitful promise of peace.
You defend genocide, delivering your people defenseless into the hands of fascist terrorists who call themselves Turks. How dare you.
I know very well who I am fighting against; my ancestors’ biography serves as my compass. My human rights defenders are my soldiers and army, and their interrupted lives are the guide and impetus for my struggle – and not foreign sermons, friendships formed in political vacuums, or deals inked in blood with unrepentant genocidaires.
Do not dare label the struggle to defend this nation against fascism as a narrow political interest.
I will defend myself from fascism by engaging politically, creating, working, and raising a new generation of Armenians, while you serve the political interests of those who strive to eradicate our nation.
I rejoice in dignified struggle, the restoration of justice for my ancestors and my homeland, the eradication of Turkish xenophobia, and the eternal legacy of our martyrs. I am at peace knowing that we are fighting to bring justice for genocide, and my undiluted peace will come when justice is served.
It is very clear that you will stay in your offices during the genocides. You won’t take any part in the protection of the rights of Armenians from savage fascism. No, you will make friends with those genocidaires again and again, as you did after 1915, after 1988, and after 2020, helping to exterminate Armenians and rob them of their homeland.
It is you who has decided that the way to your self-serving happiness comes from your office bubbles and conference coffee breaks, during which you come up with deluded genocide-supporting statements cloaked in the false guise of peace. You don’t take part in the protection of the rights of Armenians, but you erode the basis of human rights protection, the army, and support the humiliation of the leaders of the protection of rights, the generals. You, who don’t speak out but only justify when Armenian women are raped and killed, defenseless Armenians are beheaded, or left to be captured, tortured, and left to rot in the enemy’s prisons. When Armenians are robbed of their homes and roads, when schoolchildren are deprived of their right to education and the farmer of his cattle and grazing land, when the miner is shot in his workplace, you are nowhere to be found. You watch them destroy my cultural heritage and then threaten that I shouldn’t multiply.
If it is peace you seek, condemn the genocidaires.
You, who have no sympathy for the two million victims of the Armenian Genocide and their descendants, who have no understanding of the Armenian identity and our past, instead of participating in my struggle against fascism and being by my side at this difficult moment, you have taken it upon yourself to send me to be killed under the “peaceful” sword of the executioner, to be killed once again.
You backed the destruction of Armenia’s democracy, the segregation of Armenians into black and white, past and present, and the dismantling of the Armenian state structures down to the courts. You supported the initiation of illegal criminal cases, even sending the heroes who protected the rights of Armenians to prisons. You destroyed the peace of Armenia, by dismantling our ability to resist fascism, a privilege not all nations are allowed. And yet, you call yourself a common citizen?
In this country, in Artsakh and in the Diaspora, I am the common citizen: the fighter, the worker, the professional, the intellectual. I resist hatred towards me and my big family. You spread hatred against us. I, like any normal person, don’t tolerate friendship with genocidaires, and propaganda that would normalize its execution.
I am fighting against fascism and xenophobia not only in our homeland, but our region and the world.
From the forest itself comes the handle for the ax, and it is you who preach peace with the executioner that is coming for my head.
You don’t understand anything about peace. If you’re not willing to stand by my side, the best you can do is stay out of my way and have brunch.
Hovhannes Ishkhanyan, writer, director, participant of the 44-day war, Armenian Genocide survivors’ descendant, heir of the Genocide victims and freedom fighters.
Nare Navasardyan, writer, descendant of Genocide survivors.
Gayane Ananyan, writer, political scientist, relative of a participant in the 44-day war, descendant of the Genocide survivors.
Anush Arutyunyan, RA citizen, mother of a son who was awarded with a medal of distinction in the 44-day war. Granddaughter of a Genocide victim. My grandmother was the youngest daughter of the governor of Kars, Poghos Garapetyan. The whole family was killed right in their yard. Only my grandmother, her two young daughters and five-month-old son survived.
Lusik Meloyan, former pedagogue, descendant of Genocide survivors.
Byurakn Ishkhanyan, writer, sister of the 44-day war participant, descendant of Genocide survivors.
Ruzanna Khachatryan, journalist, mother of the 44-day war participant, descendant of one of the organizers of Hachn self-defense in the early 20th century, participant in the Syunik liberation war, General Andranik centurion Sargis Chepechi, heir of Armenian Genocide victims, descendant of Genocide survivors.
Alison Tahmizian Meuse, granddaughter of Armenian Genocide survivors and of great-granddaughter and grand-niece of Armenian Genocide martyrs.
Inna Mkhitaryan, documentary photographer, descendant of Genocide survivors, family member of three generations of war participants.
Araksya Hovhannisyan, pedagogue. My great grandfather is the beheaded scribe of Moushe, Galust. Descendant of Qeri, of Genocide survivors, mother of a 44-day war participant.
Lusine Arshakyan, RA citizen, IT specialist, descendant of Genocide survivors, descendant of freedom fighters, relative, friend, and sympathizer of 44-day war participants.
Edgar Elbakyan, great-grandson of grandpa Hayk from Kars.
Nare Simonyan, economist, sympathetic to Genocide survivors, daughter and sister of the participants of the First and 44-day wars in Artsakh.
Ani Khechoyan, developer, descendant of Genocide survivors, like all of us.
Nairi Mrtichian, pedagogue, freelance journalist, descendant of two genocided families, was born in a foreign land because of the Genocide and lived for many years in a region where there are many descendants of Armenians who were Islamized during the Genocide.
Mary Movsisyan, political scientist, descendant of the Genocide survivors from Alashkert.
Gayane Manukyan, historian, descendant of Armenian Genocide survivors.
Armik Stepanyan, economist, Syunik resident, compassionate of Armenians who survived the Genocide, relative, sister, and friend of the participants of the First and 44-day Artsakh wars.
Gayane Sahakova, doctor, descendant of Genocide survivors, great-grandchild of someone who took part in the heroic battle of Musaler. Father’s side was deported from Shushi. Participant of the 44-day war.
Armine Narinyan, journalist from Artsakh, great-grandchild of Grigor, Genocide survivor from Van, daughter and sister of the martyrs of the First, 4-day, and 44-day Artsakh wars.
Hasmik Harutyunyan, journalist, descendant of Genocide survivor, niece of the participants of WW2, mother of a 44-day war participant.
Ruzanna Sharkhatunyan, doctor. Descendant of two families from Karin and Shushi, both victims of Genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Hrachya Ishkhanyan, physicist, relative of a participant of the 44-day war, descendant of Genocide survivors.
Tigran Avetisyan, musician, served in the Armenian Armed Forces, a friend of the martyr of the 44-day war.
Mane Soghoyan, psychologist, descendant of the deportees from Alashkert on the paternal side and from Erzurum on the maternal side. Lost two close friends in the 44-day war.
Aghvan Asoyan, journalist, son of the participant of the First and 44-day Artsakh wars Manuk and descendant of a deported family from Artsvashen Gohar.
Gegham Nazaryan, father of the 44-day war hero Abgar Nazaryan.
Meline Marukyan, musician, grandson of Genocide survivors, sister of a 44-day war participant.
Eva Hakobyan, political scientist, descendant of Genocide survivors, daughter of a First Artsakh War participant.
Suzan Khardalyan, film director, grandson of Genocide survivors. I lost 56 members of my family during the Genocide. My story is the story of Grandma’s tattoos.
Vahagn Mkhoyan, IT engineer, compassionate of Genocide victims, survivors, and their descendants.
Estera Azoyan, teacher, descendant of the Genocide victims from Mush, lost and a relative in the 44-Day War.
Mikayel Avagyan, works in IT, descendant of freedom fighters.
Shushan Mikaelyan, pedagogue, resident of Artsakh, who doesn’t want to be ethnically cleansed, doesn’t want to lose again.
Hayk Khachikyan, just isn’t an indifferent person.
Robert Nazaryan, former athlete and coach, military analyst, descendant of the Yengoyans who migrated from Sarighamish to the Shirak valley. Lost relatives in the August, April, and 44-day wars.
Aram Palyan, freelancer. In 1920, my ancestors on my mother’s side were killed in “Jardi Gorge” of Shirak region and in their village.
Shushan Petrosyan, artist. Descendant of the survivors of the Genocide from Erzurum, Tigranakert, and Marash. Lost friends in the three Artsakh liberation wars. My brother took part in the 44-day war.
Hayk Aghabekyan, economist, descendant of Genocide survivors, brother of a participant in the 44-day war.
Zara Tsatryan, retiree. My grandfather’s first family disappeared after fleeing from Baku to Persia (by sea), my grandmother’s 5 brothers died in 1941 in Crimea. In 1991, my cousin and grandson were martyred.
Karine Nalbandyan, archaeologist, descendant of the Genocide survivors from Mush.
Volodya Mkrtchyan, descendant of Trabzon and Van ancestors who suffered from the Genocide. I am a student, a future Turkologist, a participant in the 44-day war, and a conscious citizen of the Republic of Armenia.
Nairi Hokhikyan. Has roots in Alashkert. My family left Western Armenia before the genocide, but some remained there and were partially massacred. 99 years after the Genocide, I found my relatives in the city of Mush. I participated in the 44-day war of 2020 voluntarily, performing rear support tasks in different parts of Artsakh.
Larisa Hayrapetyan, lawyer, daughter of a martyr of the First Artsakh War, displaced in the aftermath of the 44-day war.
Lusine Galstyan, philologist, translator, entrepreneur, daughter of an Artsakh officer who fought against fascism in WW2. I’ve lost loved ones and relatives in all three Artsakh wars, first friends and classmates, then children of friends and relatives. I am intolerant of traitors and haters of my homeland, one of the heaviest insults for me is “rootless.”
Vahagn Minasyan, Phys.-Math. CSc.
Lusine Vayachyan, 54. Just an ordinary person.
Tsovinar Nersisyan-Babayan, 29, Diaspora Armenian born in Paris. The daughter of a couple who dedicated their lives to the Armenian Cause, the heir of that struggle. Heir of my great grandfather and great grandmother who escaped from Vaspurakan and survived the Genocide. Employee of the French National Library, majored in philosophy, also a member of the Beam think tank.
Ani Gharabaghtsyan (Artsakh). My grandfather managed to escape Shushi massacres of the 1920s and settle in Berd. My maternal great grandfather and his brother came from Erzurum and settled in Ijevan as a result of the Hamidian massacres, are considered to be one of the founding families of the city.
Emanuela Avagyan, neurolinguist and data expert, descendant of Genocide survivors. Maternal side roots are from Hajn, paternal side is from Syunik․
Olga Vardanova, philologist, no relatives affected by the Genocide, compassionate and honorable Armenian.
Seda Karapetyan, drama studies specialist, descendant of the Genocide survivors from Moushe and Salmast. Daughter of First Artsakh War participant Vahan Karapetyan from Meghri and Arpen Movsesyan, Honored Worker of Culture, from Artsakh. Lost relatives in the Baku and Sumgait pogroms and in the 44-day Artsakh War. Responsible Armenian.
Sose Hovsepyan (Susefyan), IT specialist, with roots in Shushi. Descendant of the freedom fighters and WW2 participants on paternal and maternal sides. Compassionate of Genocide survivors.
Ani Adygyozalyan, archeologist, descendant of Genocide survivors.
Rafael Ishkhanyan, lawyer, descendant of Genocide survivors.
Harut Eqmanyan, lawyer, descendant of Genocide survivors.
Tat-Harutyunyan, Arabic studies specialist. My great grandfather is from Koshak village of Sassoun, my grandmother is from Bulanukh, Moushe. Both settled in Ashnak after the Genocide.
Gayane Arustamyan, lost three close relatives in the First Artsakh War. In the 44-day war, I lost my homeland, Avetanaranots. My cousin is a 44-day war participant.
Arpine Ghazaryan, mathematician, from Artsakh in spirit. Descendant of the Armenians who survived the Genocide and the Armenians who were forced to leave Nakhichevan. My grandfather is one of the heroes of the Second World War.
Parandzem Sahakyan, engineer, descendant of the deportees from Erzurum.
Rita Alekyan, mathematics teacher, descendant of Genocide survivor from Erzrum.
Anna Poghosyan, daughter of a martyr of the First Artsakh War.
Lusine Avagyan, granddaughter of Yasayi Avagyan, a Genocide survivor from Kars.
Arakel Karapetyan, philologist-mythologist, his grandfather’s namesake, who was deported from the village of Mankasar in Alashkert in 1915, lost his father, mother, and brother during migration. Participated in the 2020 war. There can be peace or even friendship with the Turks only after recognizing and compensating for the Genocide.
Lilit Simonyan, composer, psychologist, candidate of historical sciences, author of “Tsar-Tsaghkaqaghik” and other Armenian Studies books. Descendant of families subjected to Genocide from both sides (Senekerim Baghdasaryan-Simonyan is my paternal grandfather from Moushe, Mihran Malkhasyan is my other paternal grandfather from Van).
Ani Gasparyan, journalist, descendant of Genocide survivors, legal claimant of my homeland from Turks.
Karine Hakobyan, descendant of Genocide survivors, claimant.
Razmik Davoyan, developer. Descendant of Genocide survivors․ Great grandson of the participant of the Armenian-Turkish wars of 1918-20, grandson of the WW2 participant, son of the First Artsakh War participant. Participated in the 2020 Artsakh War.
Martha Davtyan, social worker from Syunik living abroad, granddaughter of a WW2 participant, compassionate of Genocide survivors, an Armenian who has lost friends and acquaintances in the 44-day war and demands justice.
Knarik Jalatyan, student, descendant of Genocide survivors, family members participanted in the April and 44-day Artsakh wars.
Astghik Karapetyan, citizen of the Republic of Armenia.
Lidya Mantashyan, granddaughter of deportees from Kars.
Dzovig Kassabian, pedagogue-psychologist, descendant of Genocide survivors.
Sima Aprahamian-Hovhannessian, descendant of the participants of the heroic battle of Musa Dagh. Dr. of Social Anthropology.
Violeta Ghazaryan, teacher, now retiree. Descendant of Javakhk Armenians. My maternal grandfather died in Kerch in 41-45. In 1918-1920 the Turks entered our house in the village of Majadia, robbed my grandparents and killed my aunt Flora.
Shushanik Sahakyan, granddaughter and niece of a refugee from the neighboring country forcefully expelled in the late 80s.
Ara Baghdasaryan, director. Only his grandfather, 8-year-old Vahan, survived the Genocide.
Hasmik Sargsyan, poet, editor, my mother’s grandparents were genocided in Sassoun.
Anahit Harutyunyan, philologist, editor. My grandfather’s first family – father, mother, wife, and four children – were slaughtered by Turks. I am my grandfather’s first granddaughter, he gave me the name of his massacred daughter. My son took part in the 44-day war.
Gayane Ghazaryan, pedagogue. My grandmother Epraxi Gevorgyan from Kars, was one of the last living survivors of the Genocide. She died at the age of 110 in 2020! She grew up in the American orphanage in Gyumri, her parents and relatives died on their way in exile. My grandfather was from Alashkert, his parents and relatives were victims of the Turkish slaughter.
Tatevik Simonyan, an economist and a Christian Armenian mother. Granddaughter of Tamara Simonyan, a survivor of the Genocide, a migrant from Surmalu, a potter and an embroiderer-tailor.
Arevik Mkrtchyan, artist, descendant of Genocide survivors from Khnus-Narek (paternal side) and Nakhichevan-Van (maternal side).
Lilit Mkhitaryan, documentarian.
Mariam Badalyan-Chakhoyan, great-granddaughter of refugees from Bayazet.
Varduhi Nahapetyan, an Armenian.
Hovhannes Kevork Silahian. My grandfather Yenovk is the only survivor of the family. His family was exiled from the city of Ayntap in Cilicia to Derzor and destroyed. I lived listening to heartbreaking stories of the Genocide. I shook off the humiliation of belonging to a genocided nation thanks to the victorious Artsakh liberation war. I survived the Turkish jihadist attacks, my house and residence were bombed for four and a half years from 2012 to 2016 in Aleppo. In 2020, the images of the 44-day war were terribly difficult for me, a recent survivor of Turkish terrorism. With the loss of Armenians in Artsakh, my feelings of belonging to a nation that fell victim to the Armenian Genocide have been renewed. In the face of widespread ignorance and betrayal, I am disappointed,
I tried to forget that I’m Armenian… I couldn’t. The struggle of the opposition inspired hope that the Armenians will not die. The defenders of the nation-state are on their feet, determined.
Varduhi Ishkhanyan, editor, descendant of the Armenian Genocide survivors and victims, granddaughter of freedom fighter, descendant of the Shushi massacre survivors, the wife of the main organizer of Armenia’s independence movement and the first prime minister of Armenia who later brought victories to Armenia as the minister of defense. Aunt of a participant of the 44-day war, lost many dear people and friends during the Artsakh wars.
Gohar Harutyunyan, political scientist, descendant of Genocide survivors (Mush, Koghb), compassionate of victims, lost friends and compatriot brothers in the 44-day war.
Gegham Harutyunyan, descendant of Genocide survivors (Mush, Koghb, Alashkert).
Epraksya Harutyunyan, descendant of Genocide survivors (Mush, Koghb, Alashkert).
Albert Harutyunyan, descendant of Genocide survivors (Mush, Koghb, Alashkert).
Lusine Harutyunyan, Armenian.
Marine Vasilyan, descendant of Van from Musaler.
Lusine Karmiryan, pedagogue, education specialist. I live abroad. I am the descendant of those who survived the Genocide and later found refuge in Syria. “Don’t talk in my place and no buts.”
Parandzem Mamikonyan, compassionate of the Armenian cause.
Zhora Karapetyan, RA citizen.
Arpine Badalyan, an Armenian.
Hovhannes Manucharyan, an Armenian.
Sona Khechoyan, the elder priest of the Armenian Apostolic Church, mother of two children, master of linguistics, international translator, descendant of Genocide survivors, sister of a doctor who participated in the 44-day war.
Suzanna Markaryan, Armenian (from Alashkert).
Asya Galstyan, RA citizen, mother of three sons.
Artavazd Vardanyan, historian, descendant of Genocide survivors.
To make peace with the genocidaires means “not to remember,” not to remember means “not to be.” Those who want to “be” must “remember,” remember to fight, to win, to restore the Earth, Glory, Justice.
Because this is the only way to “be.”
Tatev Zargaryan, director, editor from Artsakh.
Anahit Mkrtichian, doctor, granddaughter of Genocide survivors (Urfa, Mush).
Kristine Vardanyan, an Armenian, an MP of the Republic of Armenia.
Laura Avanesyan, My grandmother emigrated from Kars at the age of 16 with her fiancé’s grandfather’s family, because her whole family had been massacred by the Turks.
My grandfather’s father gave everything he had to a Turkish neighbor, asking him to get his family across the border instead. The Turkish neighbor took all the property and agreed on only one condition: He had to hand over my grandfather’s father to the Turks.
This is the price they had to pay to cross the border. They built their house near the border’s barbed wire, so that they would always look at their mountains and gorges.
Samvel Vardanyan, RA citizen, translator, sole proprietor, lost his grandpa in the First Artsakh War. A relative didn’t return from the 2020 Artsakh war. Participant of the 44-day Artsakh War.
Stella Loretsyan, RA citizen, English teacher, translator, granddaughter of a migrant from Nakhichevan, compassionate of the Armenian cause, relative of a war participant.
Narine Lalayan, citizen of the Republic of Armenia, artist.
Varsenik Movsisyan, Kapan resident from Syunik region of RA, wife to an Artsakhtsi, mother of a little Artsakh resident. My grandfather is a veteran of WW2. Lived through the horrors of the First Artsakh War, the 4-Day War, and the 2020 War․ My husband Masis Arustamyan took part in the struggle for the liberation of his village Getavan when he was 12 years old. He still lives fighting against the Turks. His son lost the colors of his childhood at the age of three. No one gets to speak for us. We are Armenian.
Gohar Ghalachyan, a Karintsi who has never lived in Karin.
Anna Kostanyan, linguist, pedagogue, MP of the RA 7th convocation. My paternal side is from Tavush and Gyumri, originally from Kars. Maternal side is from Gandzak. I’ve lost my compatriot brothers, sisters, and the young generation of the Armenian people in the last three Artsakh wars and in the Armenian Genocide.
Arega Hovsepyan, Easter Studies specialist.
Vaghinak Ghazaryan, photographer, descendant of a Genocide survivor.
Aram Alaverdyan, journalist. I join for the happy memory of my distant relative, Ohannes Minasyan from Van, who, after leaving the orphanage, found himself in Karabakh. He brought the spirit of Van to our village his whole life.
Amalya Arushanyan, student, compassionate of Genocide survivors. Don’t talk in my place and no buts!
Naira Dokholyan, compassionate of Genocide survivors. My great grandfather Arakel Dokholyan from Moushe moved to Tbilisi, Georgia after the Hamidian massacres (1897), and then to the village of Gyulagarak in Lori.
Adrine Avagyan-Gasparyan, granddaughter of Genocide survivors, eyewitnesses from Kharberd and Sebastia. My grandfather Hambardzum Gasparyan, born in 1898, was the only one of his family who survived the Genocide. He wandered through the deserts of Der Zor, was imprisoned, lived in an orphanage, until in 1925, he came from Greece to Armenia.
Hasmik Selimyan, choreographer-director, Sarighamish, Bayazet.
Aramo Yeganyan, RA citizen, military personnel, lawyer. My paternal side is from Tavush, my mother’s side is from Artsakh. Before the 44-day War, I lived in the city of Shushi.
I took part in the 4-Day and 44-Day Wars in Artsakh. Those who consider themselves Armenians must feel the irreversible loss of our grandfathers and brothers, our Armenian defenders. In the last war, I lost relatives and friends.
Now I live in Artsakh.
Alik Arzumanyan, teacher, author of children’s books, great-grandson of Genocide survivors.
Tatik Yengoyan, historian from Moushe. After the First Artsakh War, I felt sorry for my students who had lost their parents. After the Third Artsakh War, I mourned for the students I lost.
Mher Aslanyan, RA citizen, economist. Paternal side is from Western Armenia, maternal side from Mush and Van. I lived in Yerevan before the war. Together with my friends I collected help and sent it to the front line.
I am a descendant of Genocide survivors. In the 2020 War, I lost my good friend, my sweet Hovo (Hovhannes Poghosyan). I love my homeland and hate the pro-Turkish government. I am not going to hand over Armenia and Artsakh to the Turks. Due to certain circumstances, I now live in the United States.
Nune Melkumyan, RA citizen, marketing and communication specialist, great grandchild of Armenians from Nakhichevan and Shushi.
Karine Gharakhanyan. My husband is the grandson of those who emigrated from Van to Yerevan because of the Genocide.
Sanan Der-Bedrosian, psychologist, great grandson of Genocide survivors from Ayntap, Caesarea, Cilicia. We unite, we fight, we win.
Mariam Kanayan, RA citizen, graphic designer, art editor. The descendant of the Genocide survivors and heir of victims. The great-grandchild of Archimandrite Zion Ter-Manvelyan, who was beheaded during the Genocide.
Tatev Muradyan. My grandfather had to emigrate from Mush, and my grandmother, who was from Van, survived the Genocide.
Filor Nikoghosian, descendant of Genocide survivors.
Arthur Gevorgyan, grandson of genocide survivors, father of a 44-day war participant.
Mariam Aydinyan. In Nallihan (an Armenian village near Ankara), only the youngest ones of the 11-member family survived: my grandfather and his brother, who were at their grandmother’s that day. Giving her gold to the Kurds, my grandmother took her two grandchildren to Greece on mules.
Christine Aslanyan, descendant of Genocide survivors.
Gevorg Grigoryan, painter, Christian, descendant of Genocide survivors and compassionate of the Armenian cause.
Anahit Karapetyan, granddaughter and daughter-in-law of a Western Armenian. My grandfather was from Erzrum, they had to leave in the 19th century and settled in Akhalkalaki villages.
Hasmik Yeremyan, RA citizen, lawyer, claimant for the lost homeland of my compatriots who survived the Genocide, daughter of the participant of the First, Second and Third Artsakh Wars.
Narek Babayan, designer, stylist, an ARMENIAN.
Gayane Harutyunova. I was born in Baku. The first, last, and only thing I, as a three-year-old child, remember about the city of Baku is the furious crowd armed with iron rods tied to their foreheads chanting “Death to the Armenians” and blocking the road to the railway.
Anahit Avagyan, art critic, relative of a participant in all three Artsakh Wars.
Narek Budaghyan, high technology specialist from the Diaspora, entrepreneur
My maternal side is from Yerevan, paternal side is from Van. My father helped Sose Mayrik in Egypt. During the 2020 War, I was in Armenia to help the detachments of the army of the Ministry of Defense, volunteer detachments, refugees, and disabled soldiers. To date, I continue to support programs related to Artsakh as much as possible. I will not accept the “velvet revolutionaries” plans to realize Turkish dreams at the expense of our homeland, our lands, our future generations. I won’t accept the surrender of Artsakh and the Turkification of Armenia.
Harutyun Khachatryan, son of Genocide survivors, heir of Genocide victims.
Anna Aslanyan, speech therapist, descendant of Genocide survivors.
