Against Falsification of Armenian History

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Against Falsification of Armenian History

 

 

Published by Arman on Jan 12, 2009Category: EducationRegion: United States of AmericaTarget: Armenian Students Worldwide

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Background (Preamble):For many decades the Turkish propaganda has been falsifying Armenian history. Just like the Pan-turkist ideologue and former Turkish secret service agent Esat Uras did in his book “The Armenians in History and the Armenian question.”

 

Esat Uras states:

 

«I REGARD IT AS NECESSARY, AND IMPORTANT ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE, TO POINT OUT THAT ARMENIA CANNOT BE ANYTHING OTHER THAN SIMPLE MEMORY BASED ON GEOGRAPHY, A REGION WITHOUT POLITICAL BOUNDARIES.»

 

The most shocking thing is that the Armenian Studies chairs of the universities in the United States have also become the vehicles for promoting the Turkish version of “Armenian History.” Today, the more than one million Armenian-Americans, who are caught up in their everyday work cannot even imagine that the Armenian Studies chairs in the US are busy in “decomposing” the Armenian national identity and promoting the False Armenological School which corrupts and distorts Armenian history and culture parallel to the Turkish design.

 

Armenian History is being falsified by the representatives of the Armenian Studies chairs in the United States.

 

For example,

 

1. Repeating the Turkish historians, Suny writes, that the Armenian-Turkish conflict was provoked by the Armenian nationalists in order to overtake Turkish Anatolia and the Turkish side simply reacted.

(“Nation-Making, Nation-Breaking: The End of the Ottoman Empire and the Armenian Community,” 1996, page 3).

 

2. Repeating the Turkish historians, Suny writes, that the Turkic Azeris are the direct descendants of the Caucasian Albanians and that the territory of Karabakh/Artsakh historically belongs to them.

(Ronald Grigor Suny, Looking Towards Ararat: Armenia in Modern History, Indiana University Press, 1993, p. 193).

 

In 1997, the representatives of the False Armenological School, published a two-volume book entitled The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times. This book was designed as an Armenian Studies textbook for the colleges and universities in the United States. This anti-scholastic, full of distortions, anti-Armenian collegial textbook unmasks the False Armenological School and their destructive agenda. This book opens a new rift between the new generation of Armenians in the Homeland and the Diaspora.

 

On December 19 of 2001, the faculty board of the Armenian History department of the Yerevan State University made a public declaration and strongly criticized the False Armenological School in US and their book, The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times by exposing it as unscientific, full of distortions, and anti-Armenian.Petition:There is only ONE Armenian History! We are convinced that the Armenian students in Armenia and the Diaspora must have a singular historical framework that represents genuine Armenian History and Culture. The center of Armenology can only BE and IS our Homeland - Armenia.

 

Therefore, we demand that all Armenian Studies textbooks in the US must be approved by the Armenian National Academy of Sciences.

 

We, the undersigned, call on the academic councils of the universities in the US to remove from circulation the book - "The Armenian People: From Ancient to Modern Times."

 

Կա միայն մեկ Հայոց պատմություն: Մենք պահանջում ենք, որ հայ ուսանողությունը թե՛ Հայաստանում, թե՛ սփյուռքում ունենա հայոց պատմության նույն դասագիրքը, որը ճշմարիտ և գիտական ազնվությամբ կներկայացնի մեր պատմությունը: Հայաստա՛նն է հայագիտության կենտրոնը, եւ մենք պահանջում ենք, որ ԱՄՆ-ում հայագիտական որևէ դասագիրք նախապես քննություն անցնի և հաստատվի Հայաստանի գիտություննեռի ակադեմիայի կողմից: Մենք՝ ներքո ստորագրյալներս, ԱՄՆ-ի համալսարանների գիտական խորհուրդներից պահանջում ենք շրջանառությունից հանել՝ «Հայ ժողովուրդը հնագույն ժամանակներից մինչև մեր օրերը» հակագիտական եւ հակահայկական դասագիրքը:

 

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