Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Why Do You Deprive Us From Our Homeland?"

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • Why Do You Deprive Us From Our Homeland?"

    "WHY DO YOU DEPRIVE US FROM OUR HOMELAND?"

    http://a1plus.am/en/politics/2009 /09/30/minas-hairapetyan
    01:23 pm | September 30, 2009 | Politics

    Iranian Armenian Minas Hairapetian visits Yerevan quite frequently.

    "Armenia is my Homeland and I can fully exercise my rights here,"
    he says.

    Minas Hairapetian sees numerous insulting elements in the statements
    over the pre-signed Armenian-Turkish Protocols and Armenian-Turkish
    relations.

    "Today even Erdogan speaks about the Armenian Diaspora. Some Armenians
    also think the Genocide issue should be resolved by the Diaspora. I
    am ready to swear that the whole Armenian nation will be endangered
    provided that the Armenian-Turkish border is reopened," the Iranian
    Armenian said to A1+.

    Minas Hairapetian doesn't share the wide-spread opinion that Turkey
    is not the direct successor of the Osmanian Empire, hence the country
    mustn't shoulder responsibility for the 1915 massacres.

    "I wonder how people can neglect the historic past. Armenians were
    slaughtered in broad daylight in peaceful conditions. How can we
    trust Turkey today? How would the countries appealing Armenia to
    better relations with Turkey behave if they were in our shoes? I am
    against the frontier opening. They have put the Karabakh issue in
    the core of the relations and speak about territorial surrender."

    I get offended whenever I hear people say "Diaspora has nothing else to
    give to Armenia." I have worked in oil industry all my life and today
    I spend the money I have earned in Armenia which is also the homeland
    of Diaspora Armenian. Why do you deprive us from our homeland?" says
    pensioner Minas Hairapetian.
Working...
X