THE OBSESSION WITH PAN-TURKISM AND THE AZERBAIJANI MANIPULATION

Abstract

This paper presents our reflections of an article published in the Azerbaijani online news,
the medium named <Azvision.az>. The article is entitled “Armenian So-called Genocide”. The
absurdity of this formulation made us study the article from the perspective of the
implementation of manipulative tactics usually and inevitably employed by authors of this
category to achieve certain political ends. Indeed, it occurred, that everything is turned
absolutely upside down in this article. The deliberate juggling of facts, leading to a monstrous
distortion of reality, as well as the heinous arrogance of the anonymous author, prompted us to
present reasonable and empirically sound facts which completely expose the anonymous author
in his lie. Our article also provides additional facts about the events that happened during the
Armenian Genocide, which the author may not have been aware of, although the very
anonymity of the article suggests otherwise.