Azerbaijan expert: Azerbaijani-Turkish alliance uses Pashinyan`s  language to attack New York mayor

ArmInfo. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who recalled the genocide of the Artsakh people by Azerbaijan, has become the target of Turkish-Azerbaijani  informational and political attacks. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol  Pashinyan's language is being used as a weapon. This was written by  Azerbaijani expert Tatevik Hayrapetyan on her Facebook page in  response to the proliferation of articles in the American press  against New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who recalled the de-  Armenianization of Artsakh. 

As Hayrapetyan recalled, the New York mayor, in his April 23 post on  X (formerly Twitter) commemorating the 111th anniversary of the  Armenian Genocide, touched on the events in Artsakh, recalling that  in 2020, the armed forces of Azerbaijan and Turkey attacked the  Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh. "Mamdani emphasized that in  2023, Azerbaijan expelled more than 100,000 Armenians from  Nagorno-Karabakh, continuing the genocidal campaign that began more  than 100 years ago," the expert added.

Hayrapetyan noted that after this, Mamdani became the target of  Turkish-Azerbaijani informational and political attacks. She also  drew attention to how this is happening.

"Paid and commissioned articles against him continue to be published  in the American press to this day. In an article in the New York  newspaper Daily Media, published about a week ago, the mayor is  answered in, guess whose words? Of course, in the words of  Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's candidate-Armenian Prime  Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who stated: 'How is it that there was no  genocide agenda in 1939, and how did this agenda emerge in 1950? How  did this happen?' When I say that every word and action of the  current authorities is directed against us, I mean exactly that. Do  you understand the extent of the danger of all this?" Hayrapetyan  concluded.

It should be recalled that in early 2025, the Armenian Prime  Minister, at a meeting with representatives of the Armenian community  in Switzerland, questioned the fact of the Armenian Genocide in the  Ottoman Empire. "We must understand what happened and why it  happened. And how we perceived it, through whom we perceived it: how  did it happen that in 1939 there was no agenda for the Armenian  Genocide, but in 1950 it emerged? How this happened, we must  understand or we must not understand," the Armenian prime minister  noted. Independent experts are inclined to believe that he is either  unaware that the term "genocide" was introduced into circulation by  genocide scholar Raphael Lemkin only in 1944, or he is deliberately  trying to create a narrative that "this issue was artificially raised  by the Soviet Union to put pressure on Turkey." Later, Armenian Prime  Minister Nikol Pashinyan also stated that "it is necessary to stop  looking for a homeland outside the internationally recognized 29,743  square kilometers of the state, since otherwise the country could  lose its statehood."