By Raymond Ibrahim (Source: Middle Eastern Forum)

As it has done in other arenas where “extremists” are attacking moderates or Christians—from Syria to Libya to Nigeria—Turkey is spearheading another jihad, this time against Christian Armenia.

Context: Fighting recently erupted in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which borders Armenia and Azerbaijan. Although it is ethnically Armenian, after the dissolution of the USSR, the territory was allotted to Muslim Azerbaijan. Since then, hostilities and skirmishes have erupted, though the current one, if not quenched—an Azerbaijani drone was shot down above the Armenian capital and Azerbaijan is threatening to bomb Armenia’s unsecure nuclear power plant—can have serious consequences, including internationally.

By doing what it does best—funding, sponsoring, and transporting terrorists to troubled regions—Turkey has exacerbated if not sparked tensions. Several reports and testimonials, including by an independent French journalist, have confirmed that Turkey is funneling jihadi groups that had been operating in Syria and Libya—including the pro-Muslim Brotherhood Hamza Division, which kept naked, sex slave women in prison—to this latest theater of conflict.

As French president Macron recently explained, “We now have information which indicates that Syrian fighters from jihadist groups have (transited) through Gaziantep (southeastern Turkey) to reach the Nagorno-Karabakh theatre of operations…. It is a very serious new fact, which changes the situation.”

The “quality” of these incoming “freedom fighters”—as the Western mainstream media, particularly during the Obama era, was wont to call them—is further evidenced by their attempts to enforce sharia, Islamic law, on some of their more secularized hosts in Azerbaijan.

 

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan: Turkey has “returned to the South Caucasus … to continue the Armenian Genocide.”

 

After asking, “Why has Turkey returned to the South Caucasus 100 years [after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire]?” Nikol Pashinyan, Armenia’s prime minister, answered in a statement: “To continue the Armenian Genocide.” This is a reference to the well documented massacre of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians, 750,000 Greeks and 300,000 Assyrians—a total of 2.5 million Christians—slaughtered at the hands of Turks and in the name of jihad.

While Pashinyan is correct in characterizing the latest hostilities as a reflection of Turkey’s attempt “to continue the Armenian Genocide” of the nineteenth-twentieth centuries, in fact, the continuum of Turkic attacks on Armenia stretch back more than a thousand years ago, when the Turks first cleansed the Armenians from their ancient homeland, also in accordance with jihadi ideology.

Then and now, Azerbaijanis participated. During one of the eleventh century jihads on Armenia, the great cross of an ancient church was torn down, mocked and desecrated, and then sent to adorn a mosque in Azerbaijan; more recently, after hostilities erupted, Azerbaijanis surrounded the Armenian embassy in Washington, D.C. this last summer, while chanting about jihad.

The Armenian prime minister continues:

For Turkey, however, continuing a genocidal policy is not only a means of implementing Armenophobia, but also a pragmatic task. Armenia and the Armenians of the South Caucasus are the last remaining obstacle on the way of continued Turkish expansion towards the North, the North East, and the East, and the realization of its imperialistic dream.
It is no longer merely the Karabakh issue, nor a security issue of the Armenian people. It is now an issue of international security, and today, the Armenian people are defending also international security, assuming what may be a new historic mission.

In other words, he is saying that only Christian Armenia (Georgia would be included too) stands between Turkey and some sort of unification with the many Muslim nations to its east (the “Stans,” e.g., Turkmenistan).

 

According to New York Times journalist Christiaan Triebert, this October 3 satellite photo shows two (presumably Turkish) F-16s at Ganja International Airport in Azerbaijan (alongside what looks to be a CN-235 cargo aircraft).

 

Certainly Turkey’s ambitions are not to be doubted. Whether by citing history’s most sadistic jihadis as paragons of virtue and emulation, or by transforming the Hagia Sophia into a mosque, or by helping to destabilize moderate Muslim governments and slaughter Christians with its jihadi militias, Turkey’s imperialistic dreams of resuccisitating the Ottoman Empire have been increasingly on display.

The editor-in-chief of Yeni Safak, a Turkish newspaper, recently called for as much in an article partially titled “Turkey is a global power. Now it’s time for Azerbaijan to rise.” After saying that Turkey had taken “a century-long hiatus” from its “geopolitical” ambitions and its “region-builder mind that founded very powerful empires on earth,” the Turkish daily claimed that “Our aim is not to spread conflicts but to replace, reinstate what rightfully belongs to us. Our aim is to keep alive and maintain our region, our people, our resources, our identity, and belonging.”

Despite all this and as it was during Obama’s role in the “Arab Spring,” the U.S. finds itself on the side of the jihad, even if unwittingly. “The international community, especially the American society,” Pashinyan warned, “should be aware that U.S.-made F-16s are being used to kill Armenians in this conflict.” Because both the U.S. and Turkey are NATO members, Turkey is acquiring and using against Armenians weapons from the U.S.

And so history continues to repeat itself—in all ways.

Raymond Ibrahim is a Judith Friedman Rosen Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

1 COMMENT

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    2-Liberate MUSLIM WOMEN from the tyranny of sharia islamic law.

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    Islam is in imperialistic ,totalitarian ,violent,misogynistic POLITICAL IDEOLOGY ( ISLAMOFASCISM)of desert Arab male supremacy (>80%), DISGUISED AS A RELIGION( 40 years ago ,achieving spectacular economic growth and pulling >800mil chinese out of poverty.Muslim Immigration is Hijra( flight)to take over the country they settle in ,like Muhammad did to Yatrib-Medina.This, along with forced child marriages and four wives per man ( Bin Laden had 52 siblings and 16 children),the muslims will soon outnumber the local populations,will destroy and replace the identity and culture of the country they settle in and will impose barbaric islamic Sharia law .Muslim refugees should stay in Turkey , Syria and Libya or go to vast rich Saudi Arabia ,until they can return to their countries ,as Dalai Lama proposed.Denounce islamic Sharia (=way)law of blasphemer,apostate ,homosexual and hypocrite executions,misogyny,honor killings by stoning,hand amputations for theft,child brides,girls exclusion from schools,halal meat from non anesthetized tortured animals certified by paid imams,clitorectomies,subjugation and segregationofwomen,burkas,banning ofshortskirts,bikinis,dancing,singing,painting and sculpting of people,dogs,pork,alcohol and beauty contests . Elect antiislamic politicians that condemn Sharia,avoid trade with muslim countries ,that practice Sharia or support jihad.Demand gender equality for ALL muslim women.Punish severely those that kill apostates from Islam,blasphemers,adulterers or muslim hypocrites.No more political correctness to muslim criminals!No appeasement, privileges or accommodations to muslims.Islam is incompatible with our freedom of speech, gender equality, values,way of life, Human Rights, Constitution, Republic and population stability needed to sustain Life on Earth.Tolerating intolerant Islam is cultural suicide!Now is the time for all of us >6 billion Kafir-infidels ,past, present and future victims of Islam ,to unite and defeat the jihad and tyranny of Islamofascism by exposing and opposing it.When this is achieved Peace and security will finally come to the World.By saving on the present exorbitant security costs, we can reforest the deserts,develop green energy, combat disease , pollution,poverty , illiteracy and colonize Mars.
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    ISLAM IS A MENTAL ILLNESS,LIE , SLAVERY,DEATH,DECEPTION,TYRANNY AND TERROR AND TRUTH AND REASON WILL KILL IT!ISLAM IS ,AS ISIS DOES!
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    Silly Hadiths of Muhammad:https://councilofexmuslims.com/index.php?topic=4724.0
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    Apostateprophethttps://youtu.be/zT8jv6lZFOg
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