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  • Turkish MP Dislikes 'Van,' Suggests Renaming It Into 'Wan'

    TURKISH MP DISLIKES 'VAN,' SUGGESTS RENAMING IT INTO 'WAN'

    October 31, 2013 - 17:33 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - President Ilham Aliyev's "astounding" statement on
    the 2800th anniversary of the Azeri people was followed by a similarly
    inconceivable one: Turkish parliamentarian Aysel Tugluk offered to
    rename the city of Van into Wan. As the MP noted, for thousands of
    years, the city carried the name of Wan, which has to be brought back.

    The MP is confident that current name of the city "is incurrent from
    the viewpoints of democracy and pronunciation." One might wonder
    what a city name has to do with the democracy. But the pronunciation
    point is clear enough: everything in Turkey that used to belong to
    Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians was declared wrong and was demanded to
    be corrected. Same is the case here: Van sounds too "Armenian" to
    the Turkish MP, so it has to be renamed. Seems like this is the way
    Ms Tugluk interpreted Prime Minister Erdogan's statement suggesting
    that historic sites will recover their old names. Strangely enough,
    the PM's remark did not affect the cities listed in the catalogues
    and historical works. Also, by that logic, the village of Hissarlik
    should be re-given its ancient name, Troy.

    As for Van and the Kingdom of Van, which was one of the most powerful
    ones back when the ancestors of the Turkish MP never even existed, our
    advice is a simple one - learn history. And not by Turkish textbooks,
    but serious world-acknowledged works.

    And if renamed, the city should be called Tushpa, rather than Wan.

    Turks already renamed Ararat into Agrı Dagı, Akhtamar into Akdamar,
    Smyrna into Izmir - the list is endless. Is Van the next?

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