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In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated.
Iran is an island of stability in a turbulent corner of the world
Russia! Russia ... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?
Siberia is a state of mind.
I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language.
a South American mercenary who served as Inspector General of the Turkish forces in Armenia, reported that the Governor-General of the province had ordered the local authorities in Adil Javus 'to exterminate all Armenian males of twelve years of age and over'.
Bulgaria is a fascinating, beautiful, difficult country, and I fell in love with it.
That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.
I bow down in memory of the victims, and I come to tell my Armenian friends that we will never forget the tragedies that your people has endured.
To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians.
Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book
To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be my fondest wish.
What I observed in western Azerbaijan, among the small portion of the nearly one million Azerbaijanis who were displaced by the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh two decades ago, are a people who are aching to return to their homes.
Afghanistan, one of the most inconspicuous nations on earth. In 1946 it was just emerging from the bronze age, a land incredibly old, incredibly tied to an ancient past. At the embassy we used to say, Kabul today shows what Palestine was like at the time of Jesus.
Homeland of patience, land of the Russian people.
Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries.
I'm Armenian, but I'm very fair and I look white ... I would always get such hate about it.
In a report dated 20 February 1894, French ambassador Paul Cambon describes a high-ranking Turkish official telling him that "the Armenian question does not exist, but we shall create it.
[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.
Okay Libya ... got all this stuff twirling around in my head
I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
Um ... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
Name a country, and I have probably been there.
Indonesia has vast region with so many islands, comprises so many ethnics, tongues and cultures that make it so hard to be recognized as a single nation.
However, we do recognize it as Bhinneka Tunggal Ika.
Peru, Peru. My heart's lighthouse.
Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.
It's enough, therefore, to glance in the dictionary and find that katorga (forced labor) is a Turkish word, too. And it's enough to discover on a Turkish map, somewhere in Anatolia, or Ionia, a town called Nigde (russian for nowhere).
There is a beautiful village in every country.
Churches and mosques you shall not heed / The religion of Albanians is Albanism
The first genocide of the 21st century was against you, the Armenian people.
My Invented Country; it resembles a heart-shaped paradise.
It's not Beirut or Bosnia.
The Imagi-Nation is a little country in your head. When you're young, you go there to play. When you get older, you go there to worry.
When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuania. When I left, it was Hungary. It is difficult to say where I come from.
Iranian belief in themselves as a civilization rather than a territorially limited nation.
Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these.
Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty.
Iran, Ireland, Israel. That's three countries, four religions that HATE each other. Way to go, 'I'.
Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic figures like Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, and is one of the great fonts of world culture.
He was only thirty-eight. His body was clean, well-fed, and benign. He had all his teeth. A fresh Armenian joke stirred in his head like a child in its mother's womb. He thought life was wonderful.
Siberia: it fills one twelfth of the land-mass of the whole Earth, yet this is all it leaves for certain in the mind. A bleak beauty, and an indelible fear.
The Iran I'm dreaming of maybe doesn't exist anymore.
United States: the country where liberty is a statue.
Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.
There is no country but the heart.
Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.
Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks that this city is the most beautiful place on earth.
If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.
A country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies.
If you want to know a country, read its writers.
National consciousness is truly a miraculous thing. When I am not in Turkey I feel even more Turkish than in Istanbul. But when I'm home my European side becomes more apparent.
Remember all those references to Macedonia as the oasis of peace in the Balkans. You only really appreciate it when you have lost it.
Turkey, Australia, and Japan are three of my top destinations.
No country. is as harsh as the world.
The AXA and New York Life settlements are important building blocks not only toward seeking financial recovery for the losses resulting from the Armenian Genocide but also in our ultimate goal, which is for Turkey and the US to officially acknowledge the genocide.
I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.
We live in a regime built on force and lies. In essence, it's the same here as in Uzbekistan, except the government here is better at presenting itself to the outside world.
In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture ... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.
Croatia is an amazing place.
And I realized more and more that the Armenian story was not so much one of massacre and persecution, as survival.
Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.
Where there is no peace; there is not the slightest religion there.
You most likely know it as Myanmar, but it will always be Burma to me.
The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way ... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.
Kosovo is Serbian, only if my mother is a Virgin
We liberate our nation's heart inside of Indonesian independence!! Ibn Saud liberated Arabian's heart inside of Saudi Arabian independence one by one!! Stalin liberated Soviet-Russian's heart inside of Soviet one by one!!
Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.
When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.
Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.
I have strong sentiments toward Iran, since I distinguish between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people. I highly esteem Iranian music and culture.
This is the mirror
in which pain is asleep
this is the country
nobody visits
India Lima Yankee
Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
From that high up, language or the lack of it didn't matter much. The swirling currents of people were way better than anything on TV. Even on cable. Except, possibly, the Armenian Channel.
an appointment with a local property tycoon who got into trouble with some Armenian gang members because he didn't want to pay them
Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace.
Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her, and those who leave and yearn for her and blame her with bitterness for driving them away.
The countryside they
Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country.
'Moldova: Yes or No?' That's a great app, and we actually used the geo-locator on your phone, so if you are in Moldova, it will say 'Yes, you're in Moldova.' I'm so excited. People need that. That's the whole point. The whole reason you buy a $500 phone is to see if you are ... in Moldova. Or not.
Indonesia, women are absolutely 100 percent equal to men
Sudan is not really a country at all, but many. A composite layers, like a genetic fingerprint of memories that were once fluid, but have since crystallized out from the crucible of possibility
Bahrain is very dear to me.
Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.
Ethiopia is engraved on my heart. I first went in 1973 because I heard of a terrible famine. They were denying it even as we got the film out. The coverage destroyed the emperor's credibility.
The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war..
out my cigarettes, break each one in half and give them to the Russians. They bow to me and then light the cigarettes. Now red points glow in every face. They comfort me; it looks as though there were little windows in dark village cottages saying that behind them are rooms full of peace. The
Israel is near and dear to my heart
Ubi amo, ibi patria. Where I love. there is my home.
The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.
Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.
Greater Albania?!", this is a mockery of an unprecedented cynicism.
I love that country [Israel].
I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.
Today Syria, tomorrow your country.
my country is the world
You are in a country that comes and goes, where the people have been mistreated but rarely oppose. Borders have changed by rulers from afar, although sometimes closer than neighbourhoods are. Their religion is sacred and the heavens smile down, but the history they keep will lead you to frown...
Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.
Greece is the most magical place on Earth.
They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires-past Powers only the Albanian "goes on for ever."