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WHY IS ARARAT BEING TARGETED?

The article shows that the current fact of Mount Ararat being located within the territory of Turkey, and the fact of “touching/violating” the concept of “Ararat”, which symbolizes national memory and the Christian value system, is an attempt to transfer the ongoing cultural genocide against the Armenian people inside the borders of the Republic of Armenia.

Since through this the Turkish-Azerbaijani tandem is automatically involved in Armenia’s internal political discourse, the examination of such a challenge is possible only on two planes: synchronic and diachronic. The first requires carrying out a scientific analysis of Turkish-Azerbaijani perceptions regarding place names of the Armenian Highland and, through comparative examination, revealing the fundamental differences between the linguistic thinking of nomads and indigenous peoples. The second requires illuminating Armenia’s pivotal role in combining, reinterpreting, and transmitting the mythological ideas of the Ancient Near East concerning Mount Ararat and the Land of Ararat to the entire Christian civilization.