#armenian genocide remembrance day

[superdillin]

It is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day

And I have some big feelings, as a part of the diaspora. Remembrance Day is an inappropriate title for a time in which Armenians still face genocidal forces. Just last year, Azerbaijan, armed by Turkey, ethnically cleansed over 280,000 Armenians from Artsakh. The illegal colonizer state of Israel, currently in the midst of their 6+ month-long genocide against the Palestinians, has placed the Armenians who call Jerusalem home under threat and siege.

The Armenian struggle and the Palestinian struggle are deeply linked.

In his rise to power, Hitler is quoted to justify his actions against the Jewish, Roma, Queer, Disabled, and other victims of the Holocaust, to say "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?"

Echoing these chilling words, Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish wrote:

Who Remembers the Armenians? I remember them and I ride the nightmare bus with them each night and my coffee, this morning I'm drinking it with them You, murderer - Who remembers you?

The trauma sustained during a genocide is not limited to the people experiencing it right now. The echoes of that trauma leak forward into the next generations, passed down through survival, and that is so insidious. My grandmother got to live, but did so believing that her parents did not love her, because the trauma they endured prevented them from expressing it. Abuse and unhealthy attachment were passed down because that starving hunger for love and acceptance was passed down. It is so deeply cruel and unfair that our oppressors get to reach through time and hurt our children's children.

We need to band together and stop the present-day abusers, the genocidal monsters that oppress the people of Palestine, Armenia, Congo, and so many others.

We need to uplift art made by those who survived, and by those who are surviving. Art is always targeted by the oppressor to erase cultural identity, to destroy legacy, and to break spirits. Support Palestinian and Armenian poets, and artists, and writers.

If you are one of the many who never learned about the Armenian Genocide, learn today. Ask yourself why people worked so hard not to educate you on this piece of history.

[everydayesterday]

Tsitsernakaberd memorial, Yerevan. April 24 of each year marks Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.

"The 44-meter stele symbolizes the national rebirth of Armenians. Twelve slabs are positioned in a circle, representing the twelve lost provinces in present-day Turkey. In the center of the circle, at a depth of 1.5 meters, there is an eternal flame dedicated to the 1.5 million people killed during the Armenian genocide."

[grimoireroseart]

It’s armenian genocide remembrance day! I’m an armenian artist with a crap ton of interests and love our culture so much <3

I drew our national animal (Golden Eagle) with forget-me-not flowers as a raffle for this week on toyhouse and i really like how it turned out! I learned that some forget me’s can be other colors and they look so pretty, i really wanna grow these someday in my garden

I do also want to mention that armenia is still going through a lot of genocide today and really hope people stand with armenia cause i’ve noticed our issues get pushed to the side A LOT in media and i don’t like that at all, it’s not fair. Take a moment of silence for all those affected, and make sure you let your loved ones know you love them! We’re all equal on this planet and there really shouldn’t be fighting when there can be peace.

[sweetreveriee]

Today is April 24th

Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day

I’ve seen so many posts about the genocides happening in Gaza and Palestine, yet next to none about Armenia’s ongoing battle against Turkey and Azerbaijan.

Don’t forget Palestine in support of Armenia, but don’t forget Armenia in support of Palestine either.

The Armenians have been victims of genocide long before 1915. For over 100 years they have been battling the Ottomans and the Turks.

Don’t forget Artsakh either. The war was only four years ago. Don’t forget how Azerbaijan blocked off a necessary route, blocking off food and water deliveries to Yerevan.

Please, don’t forget the Armenians. Don’t forget Palestine. And most of all, don’t forget the sick leaders who caused the genocides in both these countries. Don’t forget to pray for their downfall.

[magpigment]

Wishing all of us a safe Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day today, April 24. I love all of us, and I'm wishing us the best. Today is a day of mourning, for the travesty we've faced, the relatives and culture we've lost, and for the country that faced so much. While I've never gotten to visit Armenia myself, or the memorial, someday I will, like my mother and her family before me. We've lost much, but not our love, and not our pride. 🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲

[dougielombax]

A group of Assyrian volunteer fighters who also resisted the genocide of their people by the Ottoman Turks and the Iranians (they were fighting a war on two fronts).

They also worked alongside the allied powers during the First World War before promptly being abandoned in 1919.

They would fight against Turkish troops and allied Kurdish tribes, holding out in towns such as Iwardo, where Turkish troops were forced to retreat after sustaining heavy casualties at the hands of armed Assyrian volunteers assisted by Armenians.

Feel free to reblog this.

[these-violet-delights-fic]

108 years later - Never forget.

[aralezinspace]

Happy Remembrance Day! I hope you are doing good, my lovely cousin! 🇦🇲💜💜💜

Happy Remembrance Day cousin! Hope you’re doing well too 🇦🇲💗💗

[peonac]

It's a day that I'm glad I survived

[dougielombax]

Reblogging this.

“The eradication of Armenian heritage has also been carried out quite literally through the Turkification of place names. Changing the names of villages, rivers, and mountains has been a priority for the republic, since the physical space occupied by the new nation-state obviously must be Turkish. Scientific commissions have hunted down Armenian, Greek, Arab, Kurdish, and Laz names and eliminated them. By the late 1970s, more than one-third of all villages had been given Turkish names. Names with meaning such as “pretty village,” “stone village,” “new village,” “green village,” “pretty source,” and “new bridge” abound. In the process, people and places have been separated from their roots. The names may be unrelated to the past, but they are Turkish. Ani, [a ruined medieval Armenian city-site in what is now eastern Turkey], for example, lost the dot over the “i” and became Anı, Turkish for “memory.” Turkification became an obsession. Any reference to historic Armenia was removed from maps, and it was made illegal to import maps that contained such references. In 1934, the Surname Law required all residents of the country to have a purely Turkish last name. Armenians were allowed to add the suffix “yan” (son of) to their last name. In 2005, language purification extremists turned their attention to the Latin names of animals in Anatolia. The sheep Ovis armeniana became Ovis orientalis anatolicus. The deer formerly known as Capreolus capreolus armenicus became Capreolus capreolus capreolus. And the red fox, Vulpes vulpes kurdistanica, lost its reference to Kurdistan. The minister of the environment justified this purge in all seriousness by invoking the foreign threat: “Unfortunately, many other species in Turkey were maliciously misnamed in this way. This spiteful intent is clearly evident in the fact that names undermining Turkish unity were given to species found only in our country.””

— “An Obsession with Denial,” from Turkey and the Armenian Ghost: On the Trail of the Genocide, by Laure Marchand and Guillaume Perrier

[dougielombax]

Please reblog this.

My own country has the usual to offer in this regard, fucking NOTHING! Bunch of parochial old goats what often forget about international affairs.

(Fuck’s sake.)

[metamorphesque]

The indictment of New York City Mayor Eric Adams was unsealed today in a sweeping federal corruption probe involving foreign government influence, including pressure from Turkey.

Excerpt of the Federal Indictment: “On April 21, 2022, the Turkish Official messaged the Adams Staffer, noting that Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day was approaching, and repeatedly asked the Adams Staffer for assurances that ADAMS would not make any statement about the Armenian Genocide. The Adams Staffer confirmed that ADAMS would not make a statement about the Armenian Genocide. ADAMS did not make such a statement.”

[source]

[dougielombax]

Absolute Chad move on his part.

Soghomon Tehlirian did nothing wrong, he was simply ridding the world of fascistic murderous vermin.

Talaat Pasha was a genocidal shithead who got what he fucking deserved! Genocidal murderers like him can rot in fucking piss.

Feel free to reblog the shit out of this.

[notjustpictures]

Me and Thuli in Yerevan Armenia 🇦🇲 . Thankful for the love I share with my friends. Today is Armenian genocide Remembrance Day.

[vicholas]

For Turkey, while the importance of the territorial question remained constant, the significance of the moral stigma of 1915 was on the increase, not least because of these comparisons of the Armenian genocide with the Holocaust. The morality factor would increase yet further as the 1960s passed and, on the international scene, the social protest and civil rights movements of the second half of the decade promoted a new culture of awareness of state criminality and accountability. All of this accounts forthe single-minded determination of Turkey’s politicians up to the present to combat the application of the label ‘genocide’ to the Armenian experience, and their preparedness to tolerate even American presidents talking of atrocities and massacres in 1915 as long as the magic word is avoided. ‘Genocide’, after all, implies a level of intent, extent, and direction that ‘massacres’ and ‘atrocities’ do not. A strand of the strategy of rejection has been to focus on differences real and imagined between the Armenian tragedy and the supposedly more ‘authentic’ Jewish genocide. Turkish diplomats have long been at pains to stress their condemnation of the Holocaust, and its ‘unique’ nature, while reiterating the ‘controversial’, ‘civil war’ circumstances of the Armenian deportations. For good measure, if utterly irrelevantly, except in so far as it is calculated to drive a wedge between pro-Israeli and pro-Armenian lobbies, Turkish diplomats and historians have also emphasized Turkey’s relatively good historical relationship with its Jews. One of the more bizarre manoeuvres in this direction was penned in 1993 by Stanford Shaw, who devoted a volume to ‘proving’ Turkey’s role in rescuing Jews during the Holocaust. Not only did Shaw play down uncomfortable evidence undermining his supposed main thesis, but, in the most obvious subtext of the book, he sought to portray Armenians and Greeks as pro-Nazi, in stark contrast to the humanitarianism of the Turkish Republic. The most effective weapon at Turkey’s disposal nevertheless remained its political leverage. This enabled it to quash the Armenian appeals of the late 1960s to the UN and the US government for the recognition of the genocide and the punishment of its perpetrators. In March 1974 the UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities agreed, on the objection of the Turkish representative, effectively seconded by his US counterpart, to remove mention of the Armenian case from its report on genocide. The State Department itself helped to scupper a congressional proposal to make 24 April 1975 a ‘National Day of Remembrance of Man’s Inhumanity to Man’ with particular reference to the events of 1915–16.

Donald Bloxham, "The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians"

[aqlstar]

Also, just because it doesn't get talked about enough: Biden was the first US president to acknowledge that what the Young Turks did to Armenians during WWI constitutes a genocide.

I guess he decided he could deal with a hissy fit from Turkey. Good for him.