Even Turkification is not as dangerous as a Turkophilic policy – Roland Sharoyan

 
It is impossible to achieve success relying only on the spiritual and cultural struggle without conducting a political struggle, Roland Sharoyan, a publicist, writer and former Minister of Culture of Armenia, told Alpha News.

“Everyone is aware of the situation, knows what is happening in Armenia, in the quote-unquote Republic of Armenia, because when I am in Yerevan I do not feel like I am in Armenia. I live in a place where there are still many Armenians. In political terms, I think all this cannot last long. So this is how we live in the so-called Republic of Armenia.

Our political knowledge is very scarce, as a people, as a nation. People eagerly go to rallies, and the opposition speaks on television, but there is no result. There is no result in the Sacred Movement either, because there is no implication of a political struggle in this. I do not believe that nowadays it is possible to achieve any success relying only on the spiritual and cultural struggle without conducting a political struggle,” Roland Sharoyan said.

According to him, people want to live well, so everyone is rushing the opposition.

“Maybe time is just suffocating, because people want to live well, and they tell the opposition what to do or not to do. You need to realize that without knowledge of the principles of political struggle, without discussing and determining what kind of political struggle you should lead to win, it is impossible to achieve anything,” he said.

Sharoyan is concerned that all this will lead to Turkification.

“I think this fight will be the last if we do not succeed. Turkification and Turkophilic policy await us. But even Turkification is not as dangerous as pursuing a Turkophilic policy. These people cannot pursue a Turkophilic policy; they simply cannot. If they (Azerbaijanis, ed.) come and flood the country, you need to give these people a place, but you have to be a strong state, like the United States, to be able to govern a multinational state,” Roland Sharoyan concluded.