A glimpse of the Turkish Media during the 44-Day War

 Six years ago today, on September 26, 2020, Azerbaijan unleashed a blitzkrieg attack on Artsakh. Much has been written and much will be written about the disastrous consequence of the war. However, not much was reported in Armenian social media as to what the Turkish media was during the war about the war that lasted 44 days and was formally halted on November 9/10 2020, with Armenia capitulating in a triparty agreement brokered by Russia. 

Courtesy Levon Sharoyan

About three weeks into the war, Levon Sharoyan from Aleppo posted on October 22, 2020, the following on his Facebook, the following. The original text is reproduced in the link below, along with the translation reposted on this blog. Vaհe H Apelian

Levon Sharoyan wrote: 

“Since the first day of this terrible Turanian war that was unleashed against Artsakh and Armenia, for more than three weeks now, I have been following dozens of Turkish stations, day by day. All of them, without exception, simply spread poison and HATRED against the ARMENIAN PEOPLE.

 These stations invite, for hours on end, university professors, high-ranking former officers, retired diplomats, journalists, analysts, party and public figures, "specialists" on Armenian affairs, etc., etc.,  who respond with an astonishing unanimity and with an effortless consistency echo the official view of the Turkish state that "Armenia is an occupier country and must return Karabakh to Azerbaijan." There is no deviation from this theme and no dissenting opinion. 

The 80 million population of Turkey listens to these stations and swallows what is presented to them day after day; surely appropriating the following without further ado:

      Throughout history, Armenia has always been an occupier and pre-emptive country.

      Yerevan is Turkish land. At the beginning of the last century, the majority of the population of Yerevan was Turkish Muslim.

      In the 1990s, Armenians carried out horrific massacres of innocent Azeri citizens in Khojaly (Azerbaijan) and went unpunished.

      Armenians not only deported the natives of Karabakh, the Azeris, but also committed a cultural genocide there.

      How dare a poor Armenia, with a population of one and a half million attack neighboring Azerbaijan? The Russians are behind the Armenians

      The state of Armenia is a bandit government. It must be taught such a lesson that it is vanished from the region. We must vanquish the thievish Armenia.

      We negotiated with them for thirty years. The knife cut to the bone. Our Azeri brothers will liberate their ancestral lands and have the red crescent flag fly over them.

      The Armenians make a wild nation. In this region, Armenia is a hotbed of instability and hostility.

      By continually hitting Armenia on the head, Karabakh will be taken away from its hands.

      “Zangezur” is Turkish land. It is necessary to take quick steps to have it as a land bridge between Nakhichevan and Azerbaijan

      It is necessary to restrain the spoiled Armenia. With the support of the West, it has become a plague for the Turkish-speaking peoples of the region.

      The Azeri army did not bomb urban settlements at all. The civilized tradition of the Turkish nation forbids us to do such a thing.  Meanwhile, Armenians continue targeting cities and their innocent residents.

      Pashinyan has become a pathetic figure. To cover up his defeat, he makes statements against Turkey using the myth of "genocide".

      Turkey is with its Azeri brothers to the last point, both on the front line and at the negotiating table.

These many quotes, I think, give an idea of the kind of enemy the Armenian army is fighting.

Has anything changed since the days of Abdul Hamid and Talaat?

Link: Levon Sharoyan, «ՊԻՏԻ ԶԳԵՏՆԵ՛ՆՔ ԱՒԱԶԱԿԱԲԱՐՈՅ ՀԱՅԱՍՏԱՆԸ», October 22, 2020, https://vhapelian.blogspot.com/2020/10/what-does-turkish-media-say.html