Hate in Art: Touring Worst of anti-Armenianism
Cartoon source: “Ermenistan,” seen on the shirt of a Ku Klux Klan member, means Armenia in Turkish and Azerbaijani
What do Ku Klux Klan, Terrorism, Narkomania, Snakes, Swastika, Evil, blood thirsty Scarpions, Weapons, Death, Beasts and Big Nose devils have in common? They equate to Armenians and their country, according to a supra-talented Azerbaijani oil “investigator” and cartoonist who has received many honors from his government.
In October of 2005 I posted an article from Agence France Press telling about the president of Azerbaijan’s National Geophysicists Committee, Kerim Kerimov, who, the article said, is better known for signing treaties to open Azerbaijani oil to American and western markets than for his anti-Armenian cartoons.
Much of his work targets Armenia, against which Azerbaijan fought a bloody war, and in large parts complements the government’s official information campaign against the Caucasus nation.
Anyone in Baku will tell you that Azerbaijan has many enemies: Armenia with its Russian backing, Armenia’s wealthy diaspora, Azerbaijan’s own opposition forces and perhaps a few loose clerics from Iran.
Kerimov goes further and puts the enemies into pictures, with horned and bewarted horrific caricatures of Armenians clawing at the map of Azerbaijan or driving a wedge between the country and its ally Turkey with a giant bomb.
If you are surprised that you have not heard of Kerimov before, don’t feel bad. I mean what is wrong making hundreds of cartoons depicting Armenians as snakes, scorpions and Ku Klux Klan members? After all, Armenia has won the war over Azerbaijan, hasn’t it?
Cartoon: Azerbaijan holding Armenia’s swastika knife
This is exactly what you hear all the time. Azerbaijan hates Armenians to death, smashes their ancient monuments to dust, jail its own Azeri journalists for writing the truth about the war with Armenia, and even deports a Turkish pianist with Armenian roots because of the war of Nagorno-Karabakh in the early 1990s. Who dares to ask why the war started in the first place? Who dares to remember the anti-Armenianism in Azerbaijan and the pogroms against Armenian citizens and the destruction of monuments before there was even word about war?
If you are still surprised that you have not heard of Kerimov before, you are missing something big. According to his official website, “Prof. Kerim Kerimov for the first time in the world found the right way and method for prediction earthquake approximately 4-5 hours before the starting of this process.” This is not Borat, it is true.
And there is more, in case you are interested. According to his official website, Kerimov is:
• President of National Committee of Geophysics of Azerbaijan (read about Committee)
• President of Azerbaijan Section of SEC
• Member-corresponding of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
• Doctor of Geology and Mineralogy sciences, Professor • Head of scientific works and author of many inventions
• Honored man of science and techniques
• Real member of Eastern International Oil Academy
• \fs20cf4Real member of Ecoegenetic International Academy
• Real member of European Academy Sciences
• He is an editor and chief of “Geophysics news in Azerbaijan” magazine An author of more than 550 scientific works, including different monographs, atlases, maps, inventions, articles and other.
He is an author of more than 4500 political cartoons, which have been published in different countries.
Since 1998, he has been awarded with a lot of medals including gold medals from the government and several times was appointed with the following titles: the man of the year, inventor of the year, scientist of the year.
He was conferred the cold order “Glory”, by government.
Pretty amazing. Did you catch the part that he is “author of more than 4500 political cartoons”?
Cartoon: Turkic countries – Kazakhstan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kirgizstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan – killing the Nazi snake, Armenia. The cartoon is reflective of Pan-Turkism, a racist-linguistlic idea to establish a pan-Turkish Empire from Turkey to Kazakhstan that some scholars have argued has contributed to the planning of the Armenian Genocide.
I must admit I have not seen all 4,500, although I had the displeasure to go through hundreds of them available at his website (added in October of 2006). Besides the boringly self-repeating few figures, there is something else that Kerimov’s cartoons have in common. Most of them say in four different languages, “Terrorism, narkomania and armenism are the same diseases.”
These ones are worth no words:
12 Responses to “Hate in Art: Touring Worst of anti-Armenianism”
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nazarian on 01 May 2007 at 11:59 pm #
I’m glad you opened the comments section.
These cartoons made my day. To see a few of them is really funny. But I went to the author’s site and he’s got a lot more of them. And they all repeat the same thing over and over. It got boring very fast.
He probably was a frequent contributor to Pravda a couple of decades ago. it is the same school.
Myotis on 02 May 2007 at 2:04 am #
I’ve heard of this nut before. Added him to the ‘Anti-Armenianism’ article on wikipedia not to long ago, in fact.
It bears some surprising resemblances to modern anti-Semitic literature, in fact.
Militarist Armenians bent on world domination and such.
Blogian on 02 May 2007 at 7:11 am #
Nazarian, I had actually not closed off the coment section on purpose. For some reason I have noticed lately that, after posting an entry, some entries have their comment sections closed. If you notice such a post, please let me know.
Yes, the cartoons are very much alike each other. It took me two days to go through all of them with my dial up connection.
Myotis, thanks for the comment. There is at least one cartoon by Kerimov that is worse than any anti-semitic or other racist conspiracy theory. He has depicted Armenia trying to destroy other planets (I wish I had posted it before – I don’t want to go through all of the cartoons again to find it).
Chronosian on 03 May 2007 at 1:02 am #
I didnt know that Armenia is developing Atomic bombs. 🙂 Definitly old soviet school.
Very funny, but unfortunatly many Azeris may take this seriously.
Cosmos on 11 Jun 2007 at 12:09 am #
Very nice pictures. Showing dirty Armenians. In Khodjali Armenians did raped 5 years old childrens. Did killer pregnant womans. Also Armenian ASALA terrorist organization did killer Turkish diplomats. Armenians world brutal and terrorist peoples. Anyone have doubt?
Also some armenians still playing the Angel. Very funny, but Armenian never angel. Armenians are hell of the Devil.
Some ermeniler idiot untrue to very serious they are taking. She hollow an original massacre and Armenians which do genocide.
There be not at all an indication and there be not a no document and do not investigate at all and there be not at all evidence a genocide situation everybody is being explained her.
Clearly she bends why iseniz surer than the genocide Lahey until this you are not going to Justice court? Because, very good you know that she became lie.
You obtain a continuation, son you will finish. Herkez be the you she will learn lies. Your boys will become from the you and will hate.
Aerudi on 27 Jun 2007 at 1:51 am #
The “Artist” is showing what kind of an inner hell he has created for himself… But why he wants to share it with the world??? he need to purify himself and live in peace with himself. Or seek help in a mental institute… The hatred that flows from his “Art” shows the exact “Teaching” he has received from his “Educators”. God rest his soul in his grave chest….
ugur on 08 Jun 2008 at 3:26 pm #
all armenian are liar .
süha on 20 Jul 2008 at 4:47 pm #
some of the pictures are really artfull. that pictures shows the armenian terrorisms aggainst the turkish people. like the al kaida. the al kaida hidden there weapons in irak in there mosques and the armenien hidden there own weapons in there churches to stab turkey in the back like japan in pearl habour against usa. and the payed the price at soon with the resettlement. the armenien terrorgroup -asala- is more dangerous terrorists then the others, so for killing turkish people all other the world. the world are dont know that, because no one interessting that if a turkish people was killed by an armenien. more innocent people during the “karabach mountain” war against azerbaidchan.
if the armenians are hungry then they like turkey very much. but if there stomaches are full than the try to kill us. it is our charge to let the armenians in turkey all the time hungry.
citizens ! keep your eyes open, the terrorist are everywhere.
süha
süha on 20 Jul 2008 at 5:03 pm #
http://armenianaffairs.blogspot.com/2006/04/we-all-are-so-proud-of-you-simon-kudos.html
OrhanAzeri on 10 Feb 2009 at 10:20 am #
first of all let me tell u something azeris never started so called pogroms, it was one of your own or russian who provoked all the pogroms in azerbaijan. Why dont u guys talk about what your solders killed inoccent women and children in khodjali ? and for your information theres still armeanians living in azerbaijan and more than you think but theres not even one azeri living in armenian, and after this you gonna try telling me that we are the animals and the killers , what about when armenians who stabbed turkey in the back during the balkan wars and made a pact with russia to start riots in turkey ? and if you say that turkey made a genoside why there is not even one massive grave where all so called one mill or how much you say armenians ware killed is uncovered ? why is it armenians who lived in azerbaijan love it so much even the ones who ran away after that pogroms ? and why is it that when we kill armenians its genocide but when armenians kill us its casualties of war ? all you do is propaganda you dont have any facts !!! I am azeri a turk and i have a lot of armenian friends from uzbekistan and from baku and all of them say the same thing that who the fuck needed that karabag and stuf its all russian`s politics and they turned armenians into their dogs so when they need to mix things up in oure region they can tell you go go get them !!
Let me tell you something my father had an armenian friend he would travel a lot all over the SSSR but he never went ot Iravan so he asked him ones why is it that you go evrywhere but Iravan and he told him that his realatives that live there are crazy becouse I wake up in the morning thinking how i can make money for my family they wake up thinking how can we make Armenia from Sea To Sea ” Great Armenian Impire ” !! Another story that happend to me resently i live in NY i was geting a hair cut at in barbershop so thes hair styles women comes up to me and asks me if i am from Baku i said yes she said to me can i ask you a favor i said yea sure go head she said when you go to Baku can you bring me some land from there i had a nephew he alwaysed dreamed to go to his mother land azerbaijan and see baku but he died recently in car accsident and we want to put some land on his grave before its gonna be one year! I asked her why dont u go yourself she told me i am armenian and i cant go but i love azerbaijan i love azeri ppl and i lived my life quitly in azerbaijan i didnt need all that karabag and now i am away from my home! the minut she told me it made me cry ! so now tell me that we are the animals that we are the agressors! and by the way show me some facts and facts that written not by armenian historias but some other country oo and not by the ones who have armenian roots if do so i will belive that yes we killed armenians that we are the animals !!
alex on 19 Feb 2009 at 4:36 pm #
open ur eyes armenia stop it, weapons wont get u anywhere(metaphorically speakin) cleanse urself, sit down at the table of brotherhood and give or else Everyone will look down on u as the country with worst reputation 4evr and evr
Hayq on 22 Jul 2009 at 7:30 pm #
It was Armenia who forced Azerbaijan to peace in 1994.
I found those cartoons really funny. Also I saw on his website : Azerbaijan and his enemies. It’s really hilarious and reminds me of the propaganda used by European countries against each other at the end of the 19th century.
To our Azerbaijani Turks or Caucasian Tatars or Azeris,(what is it?): Even if those lands were yours, you have lost the war. We fought for those lands and won them back.
You can say that Artsakh will not be independent in 10, 20 or 100 years, but it will not return under the rule of Baku in 10, 20 or 100 years either.
So you can continue with tormenting yourselves by hating Armenians and Armenia, and believe that Artsakh will return to Baku. You are only harming yourselves and not us.
You know why we won? Because those lands bare the Armenian and Christian spirit. Because those lands were and are Armenian by origin.
Azerbaijan is the only country in the world who denies the Armenian history.
I understand you though and I like to suggest that we’d be more realistic and face the facts and the existing realities.
We both have one thing in common, that is that we, just as all peoples in the world, want to live in peace and security.
Let us work in this direction.