pjmedia.com By Uzay Bulut
Armenia is historically recognized as the first nation to adopt Christianity as its official state religion, traditionally dated to 301 AD. However, a part of the ancient Armenian Christian heritage is currently facing extinction in the South Caucasus.
Approximately 150,000 indigenous Armenians—the creators and bearers of an ancient civilization—were forcibly displaced from their ancestral homeland of Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh following the 44-day war in 2020, a subsequent 10-month blockade, and a renewed military offensive by Azerbaijan.
The Armenian cultural heritage which they were forced to abandon has been extensively documented. It was built by the Armenian inhabitants’ own hands—and passed on through millennia.
In recent years, many of these sites have been distorted or repurposed, while others face imminent threats to their existence, as part of Azerbaijan’s—and its ally Turkey’s—goal of Turkification and Islamization of the wider region…
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