Until recently Armenian Diaspora was perceived in the world as a kind of irritating Turkey factor and a tool in the hands of the Armenian state to advance their interests at international level. Such an image of the Diaspora has been grounded to some extent, because in the course of almost all its activity, Armenian organizations around the world have been engaged exclusively in the problem of recognition of the Armenian Genocide, and for the past 20 years - the problem of recognition of Nagorno Karabakh.

Armenian Diaspora from the very beginning of its existence has been rather a strong and cohesive social institution, whose role especially increased after 1915. In fact, branches of the oldest Armenian political parties and, above all, those of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun served as a government for the Armenians, who did not recognize the Sovietized Armenia of 1920 as the homeland they had been dreaming of. Everything changed after collapse of the USSR , and the Diaspora began to act on behalf of independent Armenia . But very soon the situation changed.

The Armenian-Turkish agreement on the road map, in the final analysis, could be promulgated after April 24, at least out of respect for the memory of one-and-a-half million Armenians tortured and killed in the Syrian deserts and another half a million, scattered throughout the world. After all, this is not even an agreement, but simply a memorandum on mutual understanding, that could be signed at any time within the framework of "football diplomacy" between September 6, 2008 and October 2009, when the reciprocal match Turkey - Armenia would take place.