in Armenian – http://crossroadorg.info/hy/wa-21-9-2025-6-hy/
in Russian – http://crossroadorg.info/wa-21-9-2025-6/
in French – http://crossroadorg.info/en/wa-21-9-2025-6-fr/
(in the current crisis, we urge you to carefully read this series of articles prepared in early 2012 and consisting of eight parts)
Just like the And the 2017 article in the magazine “Strategist”: “The US Should Support the Plan to Create a Kurdish State in Iraq”, the 2006 publication “A New Map of the Middle East According to Blood Ties and Similarities in Faith” are about the plan of Western circles to create a large Kurdish state, which pursues two goals:
a) to create a Kurdish state on the territory of Western Armenia, sub-mandated to Israel and the collective West, and
b) to suspend, once again, for a certain period of time, the implementation of the rights granted to the Armenian people and the settlement of the Armenian Question, following the example of 1920-1921 and 1945.
We have addressed these programs in a number of speeches, publications, and analyses since 2010. Now we find it appropriate to repeat both the publications presenting Western programs and our previously prepared articles on these programs.
State of Armenia (Republic of Western Armenia)
September 22, 2025
Kurds in Ralph Peters’ Article and Maps
(Part 6)
In the article “A New Map of the Middle East According to Blood Ties and Religious Affinities” written by retired U.S. Army officer Ralph Peters on June 6, 2006, the section about the Kurds reads: “The greatest border injustice between the Balkans and the Himalayas is the absence of an independent Kurdish state. In the border areas of the Middle East, there are 27–36 million Kurds (the figures cannot be accurate, as no country has ever conducted a proper census). Yet even at the lowest estimate, this largest ethnic group in the world, exceeding the population of present-day Iraq, still has no state. Moreover, since the time of Xenophon, this people has been oppressed by various governments everywhere.”
While fully recognizing the Kurds’ right to a free and independent state and to lead a dignified life, it should be noted that they face a political device called “temptation,” from which, as they say, it is hard to resist. A smaller version of this device was used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries against the Armenians, when they were promised reforms in Western and Cilician Armenia, which ultimately led to a partial and then full genocide. Compensation decisions were made, but their implementation was blocked by the same powers that made the tempting offers at the time.
Peters continues: “As for the Kurds of Syria and Iran, they will undoubtedly join their compatriots if they can, in an independent Kurdistan. The refusal or difficulty of the world’s legitimate democratic states to support Kurdish independence to this day is merely a violation of human rights, incomparably worse than all the other violations we encounter in the daily press. Incidentally, an independent Kurdistan stretching from Diyarbakir to Tabriz will also be the most pro-Western country between Bulgaria and Japan.”
The danger is that the Kurds could be tempted to violate fully legitimate and inalienable Armenian rights, and perhaps that is also Peters’ intent — to bypass Armenian and Armenian state rights, just as happened once in history. The historical lesson of the late 19th and early 20th centuries shows that Armenians were left alone against the Turkish state machine armed with genocide plans.
An even more dangerous scenario: Peters may try to pit the two peoples against each other to solve several issues simultaneously, like hitting two targets with one shot. The scenario’s directions are as follows:
- Attempt to bypass Armenian rights through the Kurds, including the implementation of Woodrow Wilson’s arbitral decision today;
- Attempt to create an insurmountable enmity between Kurds and Armenians, thereby blocking the combined pursuit of freedom by the two peoples;
- Over the long term, attempt to cleanse the region of indigenous peoples, as the territories are needed by Peters without Kurds and without Armenians;
- If these scenarios fail, try to relieve Turkey from the obligation to satisfy Armenian demands and shift Armenian territorial claims onto the Kurds, and later possibly to another nation, so that neither Kurds nor Armenians have influence or power in the region, allowing a third party to take control of the “ownerless” lands.
Fortunately, the historical experience of the Armenians is sufficient for the Kurds and other peoples of the region to draw reasoned and final conclusions. Experience shows that Peters’ proposals are relentless military-political invitations, but the path to freedom and liberation requires relying on one’s own projects and respecting the rights of the native peoples, including their inalienable right to their homeland.
In any case, Peters is attempting, as previously, to hand territories to the Kurds for the exploitative use of the genocidal Turkish state and to bypass Armenian rights. With sufficient wisdom and experience, both Kurds and Armenians can ensure for themselves the next opportunity to establish a free, independent, and sovereign national state, which we wish for them and the other peoples of the region.
Public initiative “The Covenant of Ararat” («Ուխտ Արարատի»), freedom fighters and former political prisoners of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
March 30, 2012
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References
- See Ralph Peters, “A New Map of the Middle East According to Blood Ties and Religious Affinities,” translation and preface in Azg newspaper, 25.08.2006: Blood borders, How a better Middle East would look, All content © 2006, Armed Forces Journal | Terms of Service.
- See Rafi, “Kurdish Unity,” 1880, Oukht Arararti («Ուխտ Արարատի»),1 (17), March–April 2009, pp. 8-21, http://oukhtararati.com/