(A closed letter to few Armenian editors in Spyurq)
Vahan Babakhanyan, Saint Petersburg (Russia), [email protected]
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July 16, 2019
It is time to call a spade a spade
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Talysh (not to be confused with a village Talish in Artsakh) is the oldest nation that 100 years along with other non-Turkic peoples was under the Pan-Turkic oppression of the authorities of Azerbaijan, the Turkish agent in the Transcaucasia. The Talysh national liberation movement from the racist regime in Azerbaijan is the most important theme of modern times in Transcaucasia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talysh_people
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Talysh movement is fragmented in many mutual competing structures and groups. The external machine and the technology of splitting any positive movement is well known and works on a daily basis against possible merger of existed groups. Almost all the different structures of this movement often oppose one another – this is the result of 30-year strategy of Baku, which is trying by all means to embed its agents into these structures.
The Talysh Question is the Achilles heel of the fascist authorities of Azerbaijan today. The Talysh movement is the avant-garde of all national liberation movements of the indigenous peoples that have been oppressed by a century from artificially created second Turkish “republic”.
Fahraddin Aboszoda is one of the brightest public figures in this Movement. By strength of spirit, by its energy of a leader he can be compared with Njdeh. And also – for uncompromising and truly knightly qualities. This is a living hero of our time! Six months in the prison in Russia and another four months in a fascist prison in Baku did not break the Hero. The executioners in Baku do not and can not write anything about him for all this time. Although they achieved the body of Aboszoda, they drove themselves into a trap, into a stalemate. The spirit of Aboszoda is stronger than Damascus steel.
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Aboszoda’s heritage is great:
– books, including the first Dictionary of Talysh language
– hundreds of striking articles
– dozens of video programs in Russian, Azeri and talysh languages
– hundreds of interviews and speeches
– ideology of liberation from the age-old pan-Turkic oppression.
Few links – https://miaban.ru/info/azerbaijan/fa3/
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Armenians have a duty to Aboszoda:
– insufficiently defended this fighter for the rights of the people of the international level
– the Republic of Armenia did not grant him citizenship, although we made such appeals multiple times
– the Spyurq is absolutely indifferent to the fate of the Aboszoda
The debt of the Armeniancy to Aboszoda is comparable to the debt to Levon Hayrapetyan, whom our nation lost because of its own (the authorities, parties, organizations, and the public) total heartlessness.
Freedom to Aboszoda! – https://miaban.ru/info/russia/aboszoda_3/
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Aboszoda long time ago had refused from the citizenship of Azerbaijan and lived for many years in Russia. Fascist Azerbaijan did everything to neutralize its enemy number 1.
At the false state request of Baku, officials in Russia in the beginning of September 2018 arrested Aboszoda. He planned same month to speak remotely via skype at our first conference in Yerevan on the 100th anniversary of the genocidal acts against Armenians from the pan-Turkic tandem of Turkey and Azerbaijan that took place in September 1918 in Baku and dozens of villages (more than 30,000 peaceful Armenians were killed in Baku alone). https://aga-tribunal.info/en/on_conf_14-9-2018_en/
Aboszoda’s report was called “The Armenian Genocide in Azerbaijan – the beginning of the genocide of all the indigenous peoples of this land.” The arrest made it impossible for him to speak.
From the day of arrest, the Coordination Council of the Russian-Armenian organizations (CC RAO) has repeatedly advocated the release of the Aboszoda. In February 2019, Aboszoda was violently taken out of Russian prison by a secret operation of the Azerbaijani special services and their hirelings in Russia. He was forcibly transported to prison in Baku.
In May, by the efforts of lawyers of the CC RAO, the Russian court passed a ruling that the forcible transfer Aboszoda to Azerbaijan was illegal. Lawyers immediately filed a lawsuit to open a criminal case. But on July 13, the court made a strange decision: although the act of forcible transfer of Aboszoda to Baku was illegal, but in this case “there are no signs of a criminal offense.” Lawyers are preparing a new lawsuit to appeal the absurd decision made formally without any questioning and even meeting with the plaintiff. Armenian patriots of CC RAO need support of their efforts. This is not only an all-Talish issue, neither only a pan-Armenian, it is a question of an international humanitarian level.
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Test search for words “Aboszoda” and “Talysh” in NINE popular Armenian web sites in Spyurq.
Word “Abodzoda”:
armenianweekly.com – zero result for anytime https://armenianweekly.com/?s=aboszoda
asbarez.com – zero result for anytime http://asbarez.com/?s=aboszoda&submit=Search
ragmamoul.net – zero result for anytime http://ragmamoul.net/en/?s=aboszoda
orer.eu – zero result for anytime http://orer.eu/en/search.html?searchword=aboszoda&searchphrase=all
armenianlife.com – zero result for anytime http://www.armenianlife.com/?s=aboszoda
mirrorspectator.com – zero result for anytime https://mirrorspectator.com/?s=aboszoda
thecaliforniacourier.com – zero result for anytime http://www.thecaliforniacourier.com/?s=aboszoda
norharatch.com – zero result for anytime
yerepouni-news.com – zero result for anytime https://www.yerepouni-news.com/?s=aboszoda
Word “Talysh”
armenianweekly.com – zero during last year https://armenianweekly.com/?s=talysh
asbarez.com – zero during last year (Google search – site:asbarez.com talysh for last year)
ragmamoul.net – zero result for anytime http://ragmamoul.net/en/?s=talysh
norharatch.com – zero result for anytime
orer.eu – zero result for anytime http://orer.eu/en/search.html?searchword=Talysh&ordering=newest&searchphrase=all
armenianlife.com – zero for anytime http://www.armenianlife.com/?s=talysh
mirrorspectator.com – zero result for anytime https://mirrorspectator.com/?s=talysh
thecaliforniacourier.com – zero result for anytime http://www.thecaliforniacourier.com/?s=talysh
yerepouni-news.com – only ONE brief article https://www.yerepouni-news.com/2019/07/01/muslim-unity-condemns-provocation-against-taleh-bagirzadeh-in-yerevan/
Total result of NINE popular Armenian web sites in the Spyurq about “Talysh” and “Aboszoda” for a year and more – almost ZERO information. A search period of year is important because Aboszoda was arrested on Sept 2018. If someone finds accidentally any mention somewhere, it will be just an inconspicuous episode and an exception to sad general rule. The search was done in English among versions in English, because the information about Talysh and Aboszoda should be right in English for the whole world community. But it is very likely that the same picture is in the Armenian texts as well.
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Continuing in the media of Spyurq our joint callous disregard and de facto sabotage silence on the theme of the Talysh Liberation Movement and the theme of the Aboszoda is in fact anti-Armenian and immoral. Because the final price of such a sabotage is lives of our Soldiers at Artsakh border.
We urge to stop information sabotage in own web and print resources and to unite efforts to support the just struggle of the Talysh national liberation movement and to support Aboszoda at various partner platforms and in international structures.
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There is a huge package of information (mostly in Russian). We will consistently structurize and consolidate scattered information with translation into English.
Please let us know if this topic is interesting, if you want to receive more information materials in English with an aim to partially reflect in your and partners’ information resources.
At the Pan-Armenian media forum in Antelias on July 4, 2019, we stated that we would monitor and periodically publicly publish reports on how the theme of the Talysh national liberation movement and the case of Aboszoda are reflected in various Armenian resources of Spyurq. Because it is time to call a spade a spade. http://crossroadorg.info/en/beirut_1_en/