Karki and Marukyan - in vain the Armenian opposition remembered the enclaves

In Armenia, they demanded to provide proof that the Nakhchivan village of Kyarki belongs to Azerbaijan.

Edmond Marukyan, chairman of the Bright Armenia Party and would-be diplomat, complained on his Facebook page that Google had indicated this village on the map under the correct name and as part of the territory of Azerbaijan.

Previously, it appeared on maps under the fictitious name "Tigranashen" and was listed as part of Armenia. They're so used to it that they can't get out of the crisis between fantasy and reality. The latter has been defeated so far. Marukyan, like other revanchists, continues to remain in the painful delusion that the Azerbaijani village is not called Karki at all, and Baku still has to prove that it belongs to Azerbaijanis.

Offended by God, Marukyan writes that Azerbaijan, they say, has not yet presented Armenia with a single document or legal basis according to which Tigranashen, located on the territory of Armenia, is an enclave and is not part of the sovereign territory of Armenia. According to Shabby, there is no legal basis, no materials that would convince the Armenians that they have seized someone else's property.

Sorry, but why should Azerbaijan provide any evidence to Armenia? When Armenia occupied the village in 1990, it did not provide Baku with any evidence of the Armenian origin of the settlement. She just captured it and renamed it. By the way, Marukyan repeats what Nikol Pashinyan said in the first post-war years, when he claimed that there were no legal grounds for the existence of Azerbaijani enclaves in Armenia.

And we're not arguing. Of course not. Indeed, the transfer of territories belonging to Azerbaijani villages to Armenia had no legal basis. The land was stolen, brazenly and under the pretext of "fraternal support."

Kyarki suffered the same fate as Gazakh villages. Baganis was once Ayrym. The Ashags and Yukhars of Askipar and others were located entirely on the territory of the Azerbaijan SSR. But officials lobbying for the interests of the Armenians in the Kremlin ensured that the territories around the villages were transferred to the Armenians for alleged agricultural work. The poor things, you see, had no place to graze cattle or sow anything there. Gradually, the pastures and fields given to the Armenians expanded, and soon all the villages turned out to be exclaves on the territory of the neighboring republic.

The same thing happened with Karki.

In 1929, when Azerbaijan was led by the scoundrel, the executioner of the Azerbaijani and Kazakh peoples Levon Mirzoyan, many Nakhchivan villages were transferred to Armenia. In 1938, Armenians received a significant part of the lands around the village of Karki from the hands of the Soviet government. As a result, the village was completely isolated from Azerbaijan and turned into an exclave, which was occupied in 1990.

A few days before the events of January 20 in Baku, the Armenians, who were waiting for the arrival of the Soviet army to help them, made an attempt to seize the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. The shelling of Nakhchivan territory began at the end of 1989, and intensified as the "x" hour approached. Despite serious resistance, in January, with the support of the 7th Army of the USSR Ministry of Defense, the Armenians occupied the village of Kyarki. The village was defended for several hours by 30 residents and three policemen, who confronted two thousand heavily armed Armenians. The defenders of the village held out until the last round.

Having captured Kyarki, the Armenians renamed it Tigranashen and illegally settled it. Before the Armenian occupation, only Azerbaijanis lived in Karki, the population was 500 people on the eve of 1990. Today, less than 150 people live in Tigranashen. They're all Armenians.  

The village has a strategic location, and the Armenians had their eyes on it for a long time, but they did not dare to do anything until they enlisted the support of the Soviet army. The village had to be captured in order to turn it into a springboard for a further offensive on Nakhchivan. 46 houses, a village club, a library, paramedic posts, a school and a rural cemetery were destroyed in the village.

Karki continues to retain its importance today. It is no coincidence that Armenia became so alarmed when, after the 44-day war, rumors began to spread about the prospect of returning the village to Azerbaijan. At that time, the former Prime Minister of Armenia Hrant Bagratyan told reporters horror stories that after the return of Kyarka, Armenians would no longer be able to travel to Syunik, and Armenia would end with the Ararat region. "Azerbaijan has taken Armenia as a basturma and is cutting it," Bagratyan frightened journalists.

The ex-prime minister of Armenia did not demand proof, but warned Pashinyan that before returning the Azerbaijani enclaves, he would need to ask the parliament for permission. But why? If parliament doesn't allow it, will Kyarki remain for Armenians? No, of course, the territory will be returned anyway, only this will be done in a way less pleasant for the Armenian side and will leave more unpleasant consequences than just the moral torments of Marukyan or Bagratyan.

It should be recalled that in May 2024, Armenia voluntarily transferred Baganis Hayrim, Ashagi Askipara, Kheyrimli and Gyzylgajili of Gazakh region to Azerbaijan. The border was immediately demarcated and demarcated. In those days, all the revanchist forces and other scumbags rose to their feet on the Armenian side, and slanders were thrown at world capitals and international organizations. But no one could interfere in this process. Because everything happened within the framework of bilateral agreements and ensuring the legitimate rights of Azerbaijan. Yerevan did everything voluntarily so that it would not have to go through another 20th year. Baku unequivocally warned that it was not going to forget about its exclaves, and also made it clear that Yerevan could not hope to get the Armenian exclave, Bashkend village in Gadabay, which had appeared in the depths of Azerbaijani territory. However, Pashinyan at one time argued that the Armenian "Artsvashen" has legal grounds, but Askipara or Baganis-Ayrym do not. But in the future, I still left these nonsense.

But they were picked up by the revanchists. And today, some worthless Edmond Marukyan is sitting and demanding evidence from Azerbaijan of belonging to the Karki.

Did you want proof? There will be, there will be proofs for you, comrades revanchists. Only then take offense at yourself.