... century. Armenia wanted independence, as being one of the only major Christian minorities not yet independent "and the Turks opposing political, economical, and social views, wanted to create a new Pan Turkic empire spreading throughout all the Turkish-speaking nations of central Asia. Turkish nationalists began to see their dreams of this empire a definite possibility, and the Armenian people the only ... barrier standing before them. The 1890's were the beginning of the Turkish movement towards their Pan-Turkic empire. Several hundred thousand Armenians were killed in programs that we...

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... , which embraced the Lezghin Zakatals, the Armenian-Tatar Baku and Elisavetpol provinces and the Russian province of Mugan, and was united by Turkish policy as an advance post of Pan-Turkism and Pan-Islamism in the Caucasus...Artificial statehood...And the Azeri government artificially existed: first, it was supported by Nuri-Pasha, then by General Thompson; and afterwards--simply under its own ... ...

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... since the Soviet era in 1995. Communists have had little representation in parliament since the end of the Soviet Union. The Armenian Revolutionary Federation was outlawed until 1998 by the Pan-Armenian National Movement party, which held power from independence until 1999. In 1999 the Republican Party of Armenia and the Peoples Party of Armenia formed the Unity bloc to oust ... ...

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