The mine exploded. It’s a game of cat and mouse, what is this? Circus Shapito. Hayk Well

168TV’s “Zara Has a Question” the guest of the program Armenian Genocide Museum–former director of the institute, doctor of historical sciences Hayk Demoyan is.

Since the discussions about the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute do not stop recently, considering also the episode of the dismissal of Edita Gzoyan, we first asked Hayk Demoyan to comment on this episode.

He responded to our observation that both Zhanna Andreasyan and Nikol Pashinyan confirmed in recent days that, yes, Edita Gzoyan resigned from her position on their direct orders, and to the questions: did she commit misconduct by dedicating a book on the subject of Artsakh, do such protocols related to the museum really exist, or is this just an attempt to limit academic freedom?

“To tell the truth, I don’t know if there is any innovation in the last 8 years or not, I guess there is not, but in 11 years, when I personally led about 400 such delegations, guests of various degrees, high-ranking, there was no written, verbal instruction. In one word, it’s a disgrace.”

And the series of scandals, according to Demoyan, started in 2018, when the new authorities broke into his office during his short absence from the country.

In his observations of the present realities drawn from the past, the former director of the HCTI regretfully noted:

“The mine exploded a long time ago. we have a corpse of statehood, and there they engage in political necrophilia, we engage in elections.”

What can we expect from the processes aimed at Armenian-Turkish relations, when Pashinyan gladly takes Erdogan’s book about the “Just World” and takes a picture, is that enough for relations, or are the meetings between Kluch and Rubinyan enough? In response to our questions, the genocide scholar stressed.

“I have always called this a game of cat and mouse. The number 1 problem for Turkey now, in the first stage, is the marginalization of Armenia in all aspects: energy, military, political allies, then in the 2nd stage (there is no 3rd stage), the complete elimination of that statehood.

Now, perhaps, these people have some hopes that Turkey will open the border based on some things, or partially open a half-open door, it will be a window. It will not happen, the number 1 problem for Turkey is the dissolution of Armenian statehood…

They demonstrate that they are even ready to, let’s say, deny the issue of the Genocide, to forget it, to marginalize the work of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute with shameful processes, with processes against the church. they are reporting messages to Aliyev and Erdogan, that, look, but there they definitely treat all this with a smile.”

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