Turkey’s Armenian Patriarchate expresses support for Operation Peace Spring in Syria

[MustafaTekin]

Turkey's Armenian Patriarchate expressed its full support for the Turkish military's anti-terror operation in northeastern Syria, saying they were praying that peace and safety will be established as soon as possible in the area.

"We pray that Operation Peace Spring, which aims to end terrorism and ensure the security of the borders, will continue in accordance with its purpose and establish peace and security as soon as possible," said Archbishop Sahak Masalyan, head of the Armenian Patriarchate of Turkey's Spiritual Council, in a statement Friday.

Stating that as the Armenian community they always underscore the importance of people living a prosperous life in an environment of peace, Masalyan said the ongoing wars and chaos in the Middle East, especially in Syria, worried them deeply as well.

"Unfortunately peace is not always ensured through peaceful means... May God protect our country and our people from disasters with His merciful power," he added.

He also said elections for the new patriarch would be held on December 11. The Armenian Church in Turkey has been ruled by a deputy Patriarch since 2008. The former patriarch Mesrob Mutafyan died on March 8 in Istanbul after years of battling dementia.

Turkey launched Operation Peace Spring, the third in a series of cross-border anti-terror operations in northern Syria targeting terrorists affiliated with Daesh and the PKK's Syrian offshoot the People's Protection Units (YPG), on October 9 at 4 p.m.

The operation, conducted in line with the country's right to self-defense borne out of international law and U.N. Security Council resolutions, aims to establish a terror-free safe zone for Syrians return in the area east of the Euphrates River controlled by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is dominated by YPG terrorists.

The PKK — listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the European Union — has waged a terror campaign against Turkey for more than 30 years, resulting in the deaths of nearly 40,000 people, including women, children and infants.

Turkey has long decried the threat from terrorists east of the Euphrates in northern Syria, pledging military action to prevent the formation of a "terrorist corridor" there.Since 2016, Turkey's Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch operations, launched in August 2016 and January 2018, respectively, have liberated northwestern Syria from YPG/PKK and Daesh terrorists, making it possible for nearly 400,000 Syrians who fled the violence to return home.

[Petros Houhoulis]

Is that guy even Armenian?

It is well know that the Armenians are not allowed to elect their own Patriarch in Turkey, and that the current "Patriarch" is merely a Turkish shill...

[Armenian Bishop]

Some of the Armenian Clergymen, whom are based in Turkey, have been reduced to the level of serving as pawns. Sometimes, such clergymen have served as mouthpieces for Turkey, so as to obtain better treatment for both themselves and the Armenians whom live in their church communities.

This opening paragraph from an Armenian Weekly article is telling: "The seat of the Istanbul Armenian Patriarchate has been vacant ever since the Patriarch Mesrob Mutafyan fell ill with dementia and continued to live in a vegetative state in 2008. Archbishop Aram Atesyan, who got himself appointed as Acting Patriarch, devised several arrangements with the help of the Turkish government to delay the election of a new Patriarch and remained in power for the past 11 years. Patriarch Mutafyan passed away in March 2019, and now there have been left no more legal and illegal loopholes to avoid the patriarchal election."
https://armenianweekly.com/2019/10/1...-patriarchate/

[Tigranes]

[Kamal900]

Some of the Armenian Clergymen, whom are based in Turkey, have been reduced to the level of serving as pawns. Sometimes, such clergymen have served as mouthpieces for Turkey, so as to obtain better treatment for both themselves and the Armenians whom live in their church communities.

This opening paragraph from an Armenian Weekly article is telling: "The seat of the Istanbul Armenian Patriarchate has been vacant ever since the Patriarch Mesrob Mutafyan fell ill with dementia and continued to live in a vegetative state in 2008. Archbishop Aram Atesyan, who got himself appointed as Acting Patriarch, devised several arrangements with the help of the Turkish government to delay the election of a new Patriarch and remained in power for the past 11 years. Patriarch Mutafyan passed away in March 2019, and now there have been left no more legal and illegal loopholes to avoid the patriarchal election."
https://armenianweekly.com/2019/10/1...-patriarchate/

Figures. Turks are notorious for political corruption and buying off politicians in the west to shill for them in the government similar to how Israel does as well. It's quite obvious that they used this Armenian to shill on their behalf on what they're doing in Syria to grab more land from Syria to build the Ataturk dam in the Euphrates river as what they tried to do way before Erdogan came to power.

[Armenian Bishop]

Figures. Turks are notorious for political corruption and buying off politicians in the west to shill for them in the government similar to how Israel does as well. It's quite obvious that they used this Armenian to shill on their behalf on what they're doing in Syria to grab more land from Syria to build the Ataturk dam in the Euphrates river as what they tried to do way before Erdogan came to power.

On the other hand, Arabic People established Jerusalem as a safe haven sanctuary for Armenians, during the 8th Century.

[Kamal900]

On the other hand, Arabic People established Jerusalem as a safe haven sanctuary for Armenians, during the 8th Century.

Yeah, and even my paternal grandfather was very close friends with the Armenians of Jerusalem as well back in the 1920's.


I apologize for not finding a video of that with English subtitles but basically they're interviewing with an Armenian author who written a book called "Towards Golgotha" where she talked about how the Armenians settled in Palestine in the early 1900's and fled to Lebanon in the Israel-Arab war in 1948 and so on.

[Sero]

Fuck this guy. He is a shill. No one in the Armenia community accepts him.