Ara Papyan imparts new impulse to Wilsonian Armenia.

Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of United States, drew a map of the Armenian territories as part of a peace treaty in 1920, after the demise of the Ottoman Empire following World War I.
But within three years, Turkey claimed some of that territory by force. Since then, Armenians have been pushing for international recognition of “Wilsonian Armenia”. The post-World War I Wilsonian doctrine propagating self-determination for oppressed peoples also curbed the imperial appetites of England and France on creating separate mandates over much of the countries that were being freed from the Ottoman Turkish yoke.
For his courage and fairness, President Wilson became a beloved U.S. President and a hero to millions of Middle Easterners such as Arabs, Assyrians, Kurds, and Druze; and Eastern Mediterranean people such as Armenians, Greeks, and others.
When Turkish-occupied Armenia demanded freedom, it was subjected to outright genocide and forced deportations by succeeding tyrannical Turkish regimes – 1) Young Turks during the years 1915-1922; and 2) Kemalist Turkey during the years 1922-1923. In the 1915-1923 Turks occupied Western Armenia and Cilicia, Armenians were not given weapons and materiel to defend themselves. The survivors were mainly given humanitarian assistance by western missionaries, but were eventually forced by the Turkish perpetrators of genocide into involuntary exile sustaining the loss of an entire homeland in Western Armenia and Cilicia. Greek and Assyrians faced similar fates.
Does President Obama really think that Wilsonian Armenia is “contested history”? President Obama, as the leader of corporate western democracies, has no choice but to revive the Wilsonian doctrine.

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