Hair is a sacred thing in Turkic culture like many other shamanic cultures. Hence why women braid their hair in sacred numbers such as 40, 41, 7 etc. Men having long hair is also very normal and they also braid their hair. It’s known that when Turkmens first came to Anatolia their hairstyle was seen rather strange to Anatolia’s peoples. One of the primary sources for men’s hairstyles is that gravestones that can be found in many Turkic countries.
Erdogan is facist scum for outright supporting Azerbaijan, but are we going to just ignore that no other country is benefiting from this conflict more than Russia? Not only did they create the issue by first colonising the Caucasus and then declaring Artsakh part of Azerbaijan during the soviet period, but now conveniently have a military base within Armenia (right next to its border with Georgia) while also providing 40% percent of Azerbaijan’s military equipment
“This rug represents the village carpet-weaving tradition of the Caucasus that was contemporaneously with court production in Ottoman Turkey and Safavid Iran. While rugs produced in royal workshops had flowing, floral patterns, those from provincial weaving centers retained a strongly geometric character. The motif of highly stylized dragons, which are depicted here, gave the name "Dragon Carpet” to this type of rug which was produced in Trans-Caucasia.“
Almost 200 people were murdered in Armenia in 3 days and y'all are still ignoring us.
This is not a war, this is a massacre Azerbaijan and Turkey are committing against the Armenian people.
Turkey’s president literally admitted that he wants to finish what his ancestors started. He wants to commit another genocide, and this time he wants to kill us all.
Silence is violence
Update: it’s been over a month. 2 thousand people were murdered so far. Please, I’m so scared, just reblog this. I’m not asking for a lot, if you can’t donate that’s fine, just share this.
I’m sure everyone is sick of seeing political posts, this isn’t political, it’s a humanitarian crisis! And it’s not only happening “somewhere else” anymore!
Armenians are being attacked in the streets of my country!!Why is there not national outrage, or a movement rising up?? Where is anyone outside of the Armenian population screaming for equality? A genocide is literally taking place RIGHT NOW but you all would rather get upset and put your energy into candidates who are literally doing nothing of substance to help this situation while schools, hospitals and civilian homes are destroyed.
In 1915 no one cared about Armenia either, they watched as these same instigators marched women, children and elderly out into the desert with the sole intention of none of them making it back home, this is after murdering the men and those strong enough to fight back in front of their families. The term genocide was coined solely because of this tragedy! An entire culture almost wiped from the planet, and people still say we are overreacting!
Don’t allow this to happen again, don’t be someone who sits back as an entire country and culture are facing the threat of a SECOND GENOCIDE!!!! Please, wake up, do something, spread the news, because it could be me or my family being targeted tomorrow.
the term genocide was coined after the mass ethnic cleansing of armenians by the ottoman empire in 1915. think about that for a second.
i say this as the descendant of two holocaust survivors: it is vital to remember now that hitler rationalized the holocaust because no one cared about the armenian genocide, either. for once in history, pay collective attention before a mass tragedy occurs. (again. and again and again.)
I was recently inspired to write a song for the people of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh). These people have lived on those lands for thousands of years. They have struggle but also great beauty written on their forheads. The whimsical appropriation of land by an empire (Stalin) placed them under Azerbaijan. They have since gained their independence and have lived a prosperous existence for the last 20 or so years. I do not believe in wars and ultimately borders but i deeply believe in self determination and life without oppression. Therefor it is time for the world to recognize them as the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh). - Serj Tankian
Translated Lyrics (English)
We’ve always lived on these lands, Reaped and Harvested these fields, Generations sprung from your rivers, Children born from your mountains,
The public mask of tradition, The struggle for liberation or death, The enemy’s gaze at your terrain, Our smiles at your bosom, At your bottomless will.
We’re going to sing with our fists With the tricolor flag of justice, Humanitarian love of peace With the holy blessing of a child’s face, We are going to prevail with culture We are going to prevail with culture We are going to prevail by being Armenian.
Armenia, Armenians and our Armenian brothers and sisters in Artsakh, although headed into a brighter future are constantly reminded of the bleak and dark past. Sometimes the present seems to resemble the past all too well. One thing that is most certainly the same is the fire in the people of Artsakh that burns for freedom. And that will never change, or be broken.
Photographs by Giorgi Tsagareli of Armenians in Artsakh(Nagorno-Karabakh)
1.Protest meeting, with local police on the Armenian citizens’ side, Stepanakert, 1989.
2. Armenian school, set-up by an Armenian couple from Lebanon – Shusha, 1994.
3.Funeral of an Armenian soldier – Stepanakert, 1994.
4.Boy with a toy gun in a ruined building – Stepanakert, 1994.
