The global changes going around in the region don’t have anything to do with the U.S.’s new “Big Middle East” project implementation, which aims towards seizing and being in charge of the gas/energy resources of the regional countries and strengthening world strategies, but rather it is against the Armenian ethnos. Let me bring up some numbers and facts to prove my point.
As of 1991, Armenians made up 5,450,000 in all the regional countries put together, of which 3.8 million were in Armenia, 210,000 Armenians in Iran, 18,000 in Iraq, 150,000 in Lebanon, 120,000 in Syria, 150,000 in Turkey, 3.5 thousand in Kuwait, 2.3 thousand in Jordan. We must not forget to add the total number of Armenians living in Georgia as of 1991, which was about 500,000, of which 80,000 were in Abkhazia and 18,000 in Ajar. In one of the other countries of the Southern Caucasus-Azerbaijan-as of 1988 before the Sumgait massacres, there were a total of 530,000 Armenians living in Azerbaijan, of which 138,000 in Karabagh and 4,000 in the Republic of Nakhijevan. So, if we estimate the total amount, we can point out that there were about 5.45 million Armenians living in the region as of 1991. It’s worth mentioning that at the same time, there were 17,000 Armenians living in Chechnya, 15,000 in Northern Ossetia, 30,000 in Turkmenistan.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the main dissident of the Western global political and cultural changes, headed by the U.S., was the Muslim world. The Western trend in the region led to serious cosmopolitan changes and as a result, we not only have occupation and changing of borders, but also the migration of many Armenians-a migration from the region. So, as of 2005, nearly 2,237,000 Armenians have migrated from the regional countries. During the same year, it was estimated that 1,400,000 Armenians had migrated between the years of 1991 and 2005, which makes up 35% of the population back in 1991. During the same time slot, 70,000 Armenians have left Iran, making up 30%, 80,000 from Turkey (55%), 50,000 from Lebanon (33%), 45,000 from Syria (35%). After sending Armenian military troops to Iraq and thus joining the British-American “democratic” aggressors, the Iraqi society started looking at the Armenians living in Iraq with hatred and as a result, the mass population of Armenians started leaving Iraq. Currently, there are only 6,000 Armenians living in Iraq out of the 18,000. Basically, 65% of Armenians migrated. Let’s leave the problems concerning Iraqi Armenians up to the Armenians MPs and political figures who agreed to send Armenian soldiers to Iraq and draw our attention to the migration of Armenians from the other two countries in the Southern Caucasus region.
As of January 1, 2005, 100% of Armenians have migrated from Azerbaijan, not counting the Armenians living in Karabagh. Nearly 36% of the 500,000 Armenians living in Georgia have migrated, which makes up 180,000 people with the populations in Abkhazia and Ajar put together. With the war in progress in Chechnya, 95% of the Armenian population has left (16,000 people), 40% from Northern Ossetia (6,000), 14,000 Armenians have left Turkmenistan (nearly 45%). If we sum up all these numbers, we can state that nearly 2,237,000 Armenians have migrated from the regional countries between 1991 and 2005, which makes up approximately 38% of the Armenian ethnos living in the region. I regret to say once again that the Armenian population has left the Southern Caucasus and Middle Eastern countries and that 38% must be analyzed separately. The Armenian population, in other words the Armenian ethnic group, has decreased by 2.3 million during the past 15 years. Who is responsible for the migration of Armenians and what causes that? According to some politicians, this has to do with the Karabagh conflict, the result of the politics led by the “Karabagh Committee” or the “Unison” organizations, the global massive representations of the Armenian National Movement and the ARF, and the corruption in Turkey and Armenia. I personally think that the main reason that Armenians leave the region, particularly Armenia, is that they don’t have any outlooks for a developed Armenia, where their children and future generations can live. Sometimes Armenians leave because there is a danger of ethnic-cleansing. They leave Armenia because the country doesn’t maintain justice, doesn’t have an influence on the citizen’s moral/psychological environment, and conditions for the person to create and produce. The Armenian leaves Armenia because the government only protects the interests of 5-6 oligarchs and their clans. The Armenian ethnos will only stop migrating from Armenia and the entire region, for that matter, when one sweet day the Armenian government draws its attention to the 3 million Armenian population living in the homeland rather than a couple of businessmen who don’t deserve that attention. But will we actually see that day? Based on what’s going on at the present, I can say no because the migration tendencies continue to go up. In 2005 alone, 80-85,000 Armenians have left Armenia. This is the number in all regional countries. Recently, some Armenian analysts are drawing their attention to the analyses of the Turkish analyst centers, which claim that currently there are 2.5-3 million Muslim and non-Muslim Armenians living in Eastern Turkey. Turkey is doing this on purpose to have those 3 million “Armenians” come to Armenia and live with their once “relatives” as soon as Turkish-Armenian ties get firmly established. The goal now is to change the structure of the Armenian ethnos to get rid of the Armenians who have turned Muslim. If you don’t believe me, then just take a walk around the cafes and streets of Yerevan where you will see that it’s like we are living in Haleb or Istanbul.