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What is being done to Armenian monuments in Artsakh now is not new and it is not vandalism. Seda Parsamyan traces the demolition policy of the Hamidian massacres of the 1890s and puts the legal question directly: when a state sets out to erase a people's churches, at what point does that become cultural genocide? She works through how the concept has been defined, redefined and quietly narrowed by people who would rather it did not apply. The frame she builds is the one now being reached for over Artsakh.

Mass Destruction of Armenian Cultural Heritage during the Hamidian Massacres (1894-1896)

Parsamyan, Seda A. · 2023 · International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 5–34 (AGMI, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0043
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Topic:regional security
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The Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Conflict and the Organization of Turkic States (OTS)

Minasyan, Nelli, 2024
Հայագիտության հարցեր / Armenological Issues, Vol. 1, No. 2(28), pp. 45–66 (YSU Institute for Armenian Studies); DOI 10.46991/ai.2024.2.28.003

Minasyan analyses how the Artsakh conflict has been discussed at the summits of Turkic-speaking states and inside the Turkic Council and its successor, the Organization of Turkic States, and what positions the Turkic-speaking republics have actually taken. She treats the OTS as the institutional vehicle of Turkic integration and argues that as that integration deepens, pressure on Armenia and Artsakh grows. For the earlier decades she finds that Türkiye and Azerbaijan tried to give the conflict a pan-Turkic character and assemble a united anti-Armenian front, but the Central Asian republics largely held to neutrality. After the 44-day war Türkiye accelerated Turkic integration across political, economic, educational, cultural, security and information domains.

ArtsakhOrganization of Turkic Statespan-Turkismregional securityTürkiye-Azerbaijan alignment
English
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The Geostrategic Significance of Syunik: Balancing Regional and Global Powers

Nazaryan, Hayk · Hovhannisyan, Varduhi, 2024
Fundamental Armenology, Issue 1(19) 2024, History section (National Academy of Sciences of RA); ISSN 1829-4618

Syunik, Armenia's southern province, sits at the intersection of competing cultures and geopolitical interests by virtue of its geography and resources. After the 44-day Artsakh war of 2020 the question of 'unblocking communications' resurfaced, and the article examines the transit and corridor projects promoted by different states, with particular attention to Syunik's place in them. It works through the International North-South Transport Corridor, the Persian Gulf–Black Sea project, and the Crossroads of Peace initiative, assessing Syunik's strategic relevance for regional stakeholders and global powers alike.

Syunikgeopoliticstransit corridorsArmenian sovereigntyregional security
English

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