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The notions of “self-determination” and “territorial integrity” are often used with regard to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Unfortunately, these legal terms are largely misused mostly due to political motives. One of the grave misinterpretations of the said notions was made by Ambassador-to-be (or not to be) Matthew Bryza when he declared: “There's a legal principle of territorial integrity of states, there's a political principle of self-determination of peoples.”
 

Keghart.com Team Editorial, 21 June 2010

What follows may seem a premature concern--like the proverbial counting chickens before they are hatched. It was prompted by the resumption of hostilities between Kurdish fighters and the Turkish army. An additional incentive was the attendance of ARF representatives at the third convention of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in Suleimanieh, Iraq earlier this month.

For a number of reasons, Armenian-Kurdish relations have come to the forefront of Armenian attention. From the Armenian standpoint, the priority is the lands in Western Armenia, a Turkish-occupied area mostly inhabited by Kurds.
 

By Armenian Weekly Staff, 17 June 2010

YEREVAN (A.W.)—A delegation representing the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) attended the third convention of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Party (PUK), which kicked off on June 1 in the Suleimanieh area of Iraqi Kurdistan.

Attending the opening session of the conference were Jalal Talabani, Iraq’s president and PUK secretary general; Masoud Barzani, an Iraqi Kurdistan leader and chairman of the Kurdistan Democratic Party; Nouri al Malaki, Iraq’s prime minister; as well as representatives of political parties, diplomats, and delegations to the convention.

By Mark Arax,Salon.com, 16 June 2010

Some of the most powerful leaders in the American Jewish community have stepped forward in recent days to acknowledge the 1915 Armenian Genocide at the hands of Ottoman Turkey.

On the surface, this would seem unremarkable. As victims of the Holocaust, Jews might be expected to stand beside the Armenians and their tragedy. After all, the massacres and death marches across Anatolia during the fog of World War I became a model for Hitler himself.