But it was the forebears of these same Turks and Azeris who massacred 1.5 million Armenians living under Ottoman rule in the years 1915 to 1918. For Armenians residing in Armenia and adjacent Nagorno-Karabakh, squeezed between Turkey and Turkic Azerbaijan, this scenario is not a hypothetical. The 3 million Armenians in the homeland and the 8 million like us scattered far and wide believe Nagorno-Karabakh is part and parcel of our survival. Then in 1988, as the USSR began to crumble, Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh voted for independence. They have called out President Trump for failing to apply any pressure to Israel, Turkey or Azerbaijan.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 16, 2020 09:56 UTC