ACNIS expert, Saro Saroyan, had an interview with journalists and talked about the situation in Western Armenia.
“The southern part, of Western Armenia is full of Kurds and when you enter there it seems that you are on a military base. All of them are armed and are waiting to take actions if necessary. There is a great fear that the Kurds will get angry and attack the Turkish government, which will bring a lot of problems”.
The expert also noted that in Western Armenia the Turkish “gendarme” always tries to put pressure on the citizens.
“Armenians living in Mush and Sasun are kind of in good condition than the rest of Armenians. The mentioned citizens are Muslims and don’t know Armenian. Acceding to them they adopted Muslim by their wish and nobody made them do it. May be they weren’t against that action but I’m sure that their ancestors were.”
The expert also touched upon the ongoing developments in Syria.
“I hope that al-Asaad’s regime won’t fall down, because it won’t be good for Christians. Turkey does everything, supplies weapons and everything else, in order to overthrow al-Asaad’s regime. If Turkey fails, then it will face a lot of problems.”
In the end Saroyan noted that nowadays, Western Armenia is separated in two parts: Southern and Northern. The Northern part is controlled by Turks and the Southern part by Kurds, and there is a huge conflict in the region.
