{"id":15123,"date":"2009-10-06T04:11:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T02:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=15123"},"modified":"2009-10-06T04:11:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T02:11:27","slug":"turkish-and-armenian-american-reactions-to-protocols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/10\/06\/turkish-and-armenian-american-reactions-to-protocols\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish- and Armenian-American reactions to protocols"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en-us\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><strong>From:<\/strong> <strong>Javid Huseynov  [javid@azeris.com<\/strong><span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #0000ff;\"> <strong><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; color: #000000;\">]<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en-us\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>I think the reactions shown by Turkish-American and Armenian-American  organizations to protocols reveal some important structural differences worth  noting.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish-American organizations (much like Azeri-American ones,  by the way) remain strongly in line with the concurrent foreign policy of  originating nation (i.e., Turkey, Azerbaijan, etc.). This is the most  fundamental deficiency in diaspora, inability to have an independent decision  making mechanism based solely on community&#8217;s view and thinking. Ultimately, such  approach visibly turns diaspora into another tool of executing the foreign  policy of home government, makes organizations dependent (including  economically) on foreign country, lowers their significance in influencing the  politics of the host nation, the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The reaction of Armenian  diaspora shows exactly the opposite. It&#8217;s a strong and independent  decision-making unit, able to influence the foreign policy of the United States,  independently of Armenia, with or without its existence, and Sarkisian  calculated this well too. Unlike Turkish reaction, the Armenian approach is  driven by ideology and &#8220;soft power&#8221; not by state&#8217;s foreign policy, which makes  Armenians so much more successful in achieving their goals on every front. And I  hope both Turkish- and Azeri-American organizations can learn from this  experience and have their own voice in future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Javid Huseynov [javid@azeris.com ] I think the reactions shown by Turkish-American and Armenian-American organizations to protocols reveal some important structural differences worth noting. Turkish-American organizations (much like Azeri-American ones, by the way) remain strongly in line with the concurrent foreign policy of originating nation (i.e., Turkey, Azerbaijan, etc.). This is the most fundamental deficiency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":76351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,34],"tags":[145,120,204,1153,1018],"class_list":["post-15123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenian-question","category-usa","tag-barack-obama","tag-gulen","tag-nagorno-karabakh","tag-politics","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}