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Time in Yerevan: 11:07,   28 March 2024

Official Ankara has equal complicity in Islamic State’s actions: Sedrak Ajemian

Official Ankara has equal complicity in Islamic State’s actions: Sedrak Ajemian

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 21, ARMENPRESS: Turkey pays enormous money for the existence of the Islamic State grouping. This way Turkey solves many problems – it weakens the Arab world, in particular Syria, Iraq and Lebanon and becomes the strongest Islamic state in the region and besides, it has an ally, ready for everything, in the clarification of the relations with Iran. The member of the Central Board of the Social Democratic Hnchak Party (SDHP) Sedrak Ajemian told Armenpress about it. 
- Mr. Ajemian, as the member of the Central Board of a Diaspora Party, how do you evaluate the situation in the Middle East? How does the activity of the terrorist grouping DAESH (Islamic State) threaten the Armenians of the Middle East?
- I think that the so-called DAESH organization threatens the physical existence of the Armenians in two ways. First, we have to deal with historically unprecedented extremist Islamists, who will remain in the history as the cruelest organization, which refuses everything except for the fundamental Islam. We, as a Christian nation, cannot feel safe, when such a big terrorist structure acts and occupies considerable territories in the Middle East. The explosion of the Deir Ez-Zor Saint Martyrs Church is a bright example for that. Second, it is very important to fact that one of the direct sponsors of the DAESH is Turkey. The official Ankara has equal complicity in the Islamic State’s actions. I assure that Turkey pays enormous money for the existence of the Islamic State grouping. This way Turkey solves many problems – it weakens the Arab world, in particular Syria, Iraq and Lebanon and becomes the strongest Islamic state in the region and besides, it has an ally, ready for everything, in the clarification of the relations with Iran. Under the conditions of the silence of the West, Turkey created its biting dog in the region – DAESH – which took the lives of thousands of innocent people. Concerning us, the Armenians, the sponsorship of DAESH or other Islamic fundamental organizations  provides Turkey with the opportunity to promote the migration of the Armenians from the Middle East, which has always been a bone in the throat. The Armenian, born in the Middle East, say in Lebanon, Syria or Jordan, as a rule preserves his ethnic identity, the mother language and is fighting for his demands. Moreover, I think that the official Ankara did not stay aside of the explosion of the Deir Ez-Zor Saint Martyrs Church.
- In this case, what do you think, where should we look for natural allies?
- Though such statement sounds for the first time, Armenia and Diaspora should try to deepen relations with the Kurds, particularly, with the leadership of the Northern Kurdistan. The deepening of the ties with the official Erbil is beneficial for us for some reasons. First, today the Northern Kurdistan is one of the most organized units, which has an accented anti-Turkish stance. I am sure that sooner or later it will be announced by the international community as an independent, sovereign state, which has ambitions, which, certainly, are not in the interests of the official Ankara. Just see, how much armament Kurdistan has purchased during the last years, according to official data. They are billions. That state develops very fast and Erbil is on the way to become Singapore of the region. Then, we have always had mutual interests with Kurds, which we should not forget. Certainly, these relations should be built very carefully, though, I am sure that there is no other alternative. The Armenians and Kurds have one common enemy – the policy of the Turkish state.
- And what do you think about the current mood in Turkey? It seems that today more Turks speak about the Armenian Genocide and condemn the past.
- For the Social Democratic Hnchak Party the Turkish nation has never been an enemy. Our target is the policy of the Turkish state and its authorities. At present many Hnchak figures visit Turkey and participate in the conferences. We have many Turk supporters, who publicly speak about the villain and renegade policy of their state. Fighting against Turkey with a weapon in the hand is not the only option. We should enter the progressive masses of the Turkish nation and try to inform them about what had happened and give information about the reality. The Social Democratic Hnchak Party has chosen that path. Last year some tens of Turks marked the martyrdom anniversary of twenty hung up Hnchak heroes in Istanbul Square. There the Turks raised the Hnchak flag. Yes, we do contribute to the process, but I think that among the progressive Turkish intelligentsia some melting processes are being observed.








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