Hazhir Teimourian

Proud To Be Huns

Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World

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It looked like an Armenian spoof for April Fool’s Day released too early, but it had been emailed to me by a reliable source and read like a typical BBC report. It said that the Turkish Ministry of the Environment had changed the scientific names of three animals found in the eastern region of the country because they had been named by Europeans to harm Turkish unity and to imply that Armenians and Kurds had once lived in the region.

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