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the fact that the overwhelming majority o f "the Kurds"
had no sympathy for the PK K whatsoever - after all, a
huge number o f Turks o f Kurdish extraction had fallen
victim to these madmen.
Where does this strange sympathy come from?
Does it perhaps have something to do with depth psychology,
something to do with the mythical - or to put it more exactly,
fictitious - founders o f the two states o f Switzerland and
Armenia?
Whatever the case, the NZZ were not at all shy o f falsifi­
cations o f any kind, whether home-made or adopted from
elsewhere, as is shown unambiguously by two photo­
graphs from the newspaper. On the left-hand picture, the
falsifier went to the trouble o f covering up the mountains
in the background, but failed to see the window in the
taller building, while cleverly covering up the buildings
in the middle ...
It is o f no importance whether these manipulations were
carried out beforehand or whether they were done in the
NZZ's workshop. In any case, even a semi-educated lec­
tor should have noticed these falsifications, and this was
not the case, whether on purpose or not.
This imposing monument shows William Tell, who never
really existed, in spite o f Friedrich Schiller's play and
Giuseppe Verdi's opera. Schiller created another myth in
his Don Carlos, and again, Verdi gratefully made it his
own. Somehow, it all reminds one o f that other master­
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piece, the ".Forty Days o f Musa Dagh ", in that although it
has hardly anything to do with reality it still has a certain
effect in reality.
The story o f William Tel! is a myth, and there is nothing
wrong with that, whether we are talking about the Swiss
with their legendary figure o f Tell, or the Armenians (the
Haik), whose "HAIK” gave them their "raison d'etre".
Confederates did in fact exist who defended themselves
with the crossbow against those they considered to be
enemies. Many Swiss know that, but fo r the majority it is
probably a matter o f indifference. Could it be that this
foundational story has something to do with their absurd
sympathy fo r the Haik?
This powerful work o f art standing in the middle o f
Eriwan is a representation o f Haik. Who was that?
Originally, Haik was probably a pagan god. But after
Christianization things moved fa st and he mutated into a
direct descendant o f the Archpatriarch Noah - the fact
that his name does not even appear in the Bible seems not
to have been a problem. On that point the Haik are nothing
if not generous, and even go so fa r as to call the country
HAYASTAN. There are only a few countries
(Columbia, Bolivia, Saudi Arabia) which are named after
historical personalities. But after a figure from legend?
This question may at first seem superfluous or irrelevant,
but this is not the case with HAYASTAN. In fact, it hits the
nail right on the head in that the matter is quite irrational.
The answer can only be: That is the politics o f
Hayastan and its diaspora, which is quite incomprehensible
in rational terms.