Moheet.com marks Nakhijevan as Armenia's territory

PanARMENIAN.Net - Egyptian Moheet.com portal published a map on which Nagorno Karabakh and Nakhichevan are marked as a part of Armenia while Turkey's borders are outlined in compliance with the Treaty of Sevres. The map was posted as illustration for an article about Azerbaijan and Egyptian cinema week in Baku, freelance French journalist Jean Eckian told PanARMENIAN.Net



Baku has already addressed an official protest note to the Egyptian Foreign Ministry.



Georgia also received a protest note over a billboard (in the town of Rustavi), featuring Nakhijevan under the Armenian flag.



The Republic of Artsakh (NKR) is a de facto independent republic located in the South Caucasus, bordering by Azerbaijan to the north and east, Iran to the south, and Armenia to the west.



After the Soviet Union established control over the area, in 1923 it formed the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) within the Azerbaijan SSR. In the final years of the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan launched an ethnic cleansing which resulted in the Karabakh War that was fought from 1991 to 1994.



Since the ceasefire in 1994, sealed by Armenia, Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan, most of Nagorno Karabakh and several regions of Azerbaijan around it (the security zone) remain under the control of Nagorno Karabakh defense army. Armenia and Azerbaijan are holding peace talks mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group up till now.



Nakhijevan is an autonomous republic within Azerbaijan, the homeland of the ruling Aliyev clan. An Armenian territory until 1923, Nakhijevan was transferred to Azerbaijan, whose leadership eliminated Armenian historical and cultural heritage in the area.



The Treaty of Sevres of August 10, 1920, was a peace treaty between the Entente and Associated Powers on one hand, and the Ottoman Empire on the other after World War I. The Entente and the Associated Powers were the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan, Greece, Belgium, Armenia, the Hejaz (Saudi Arabia), Poland, Portugal, Romania, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia) and Czechoslovakia.



According to the Treaty, which followed the outlines of earlier agreements between the Allies at the Conference of San Remo in April 1920. Hejaz (now part of Saudi Arabia) and Armenia were to become independent. Kurdistan was to be given independence, according to Section III Articles 62-64, the Kurdish vilayet of Mosul would also be able to join the independent Kurdistan. In accordance with the wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement, Mesopotamia and Palestine were assigned under mandate to the tutelage of the United Kingdom, Lebanon and Syria to that of France. The Dodecanese and Rhodes (already under Italian occupation since 1911), with portions of southern Anatolia, were to pass to Italy, while Thrace and Western Anatolia, including the key port of Smyrna would become part of Greece. The Bosphorus, Dardanelles and Sea of Marmara were to be demilitarized and internationalized.



Article 89 of the Treaty reads that "Turkey and Armenia as well as the other High Contracting Parties agree to submit to the arbitration of the President of the United States of America the question of the frontier to be fixed between Turkey and Armenia in the Vilayets of Erzerum, Trebizond, Van and Bitlis, and to accept his decision thereupon, as well as any stipulations he may prescribe as to access for Armenia to the sea, and as to the demilitarization of any portion of Turkish territory adjacent to the said frontier."



While the treaty was under discussion, the Turkish national movement under Mustafa Kemal Pasha split with the monarchy based in Constantinople, set up a Turkish Grand National Assembly in Ankara, successfully fought the Turkish War of Independence and forced the former wartime Allies to return to the negotiating table. As result, the Treaty of Lausanne, which replaced the Treaty of Sevres and recovered large territory in Anatolia and Thrace for the Turks, was signed.