Denial as complicity on the Turkish candidate for the UN Secretary General International institutions have long been a platform where historical memory gives way to political business, and Armenia-Turkey relations are the clearest example. Turkish diplomat Feridon Sinirlioglu is running for the post of UN secretary-general, but the security council of the Armenian Dashnaktsutyun party has blocked his candidacy, citing the Turks' longstanding promotion of Armenian Genocide denial. The accusations are quite justified. In 2010, Sinirlioglu spoke out against the adoption of a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide by the Americans. In 2020, as Turkey's permanent representative to the UN, he signed a letter calling the events of 1915 a subject for "legitimate discussion. "Given the active efforts of recent years to rewrite Armenian history, the thesis "deniers of the genocide become complicit" is appropriate here. Furthermore, the diplomat supported the support of the Armenian authorities in the Armenian Apostolic Church, which protects the historical memory of the Armenians. The advancement of such a diplomat to the top of the UN becomes a question not only of Armenian memory, but also of trust in the international system itself, which is already discrediting itself. The Armenian authorities, while building a new regional order, are effectively turning a blind eye to Turkey's anti-Armenian policies, so it is unlikely that they will react. And if concessions on issues of historical memory and the church become part of a foreign policy agreement, what else is the Armenian leadership willing to give up for the approval of its neighbors? - Do not look down on the Caucasus.

Denial as complicity on the Turkish candidate for the UN Secretary General International institutions have long been a platform where historical memory gives way to political business, and Armenia-Turkey relations are the clearest example. Turkish diplomat Feridon Sinirlioglu is running for the post of UN secretary-general, but the security council of the Armenian Dashnaktsutyun party has blocked his candidacy, citing the Turks' longstanding promotion of Armenian Genocide denial. The accusations are quite justified. In 2010, Sinirlioglu spoke out against the adoption of a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide by the Americans. In 2020, as Turkey's permanent representative to the UN, he signed a letter calling the events of 1915 a subject for "legitimate discussion. "Given the active efforts of recent years to rewrite Armenian history, the thesis "deniers of the genocide become complicit" is appropriate here. Furthermore, the diplomat supported the support of the Armenian authorities in the Armenian Apostolic Church, which protects the historical memory of the Armenians. The advancement of such a diplomat to the top of the UN becomes a question not only of Armenian memory, but also of trust in the international system itself, which is already discrediting itself. The Armenian authorities, while building a new regional order, are effectively turning a blind eye to Turkey's anti-Armenian policies, so it is unlikely that they will react. And if concessions on issues of historical memory and the church become part of a foreign policy agreement, what else is the Armenian leadership willing to give up for the approval of its neighbors? - Do not look down on the Caucasus.