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{{Short description|Armenian irredentist concept}}
[[File:United Armenia.png|thumb|upright=1.35|right|The modern concept of United Armenia as claimed by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.<ref name="crisisgroup"/><ref name="FOOTNOTEHarutyunyan200989"/><br />Orange: areas overwhelmingly populated by Armenians (Republic of Armenia: 98%;<ref>{{cite web|title=2011 Census Results|url=http://armstat.am/file/article/sv_03_13a_520.pdf|website=armstat.am|publisher=National Statistical Service of Republic of Armenia|page=144}}</ref> Nagorno-Karabakh: 99%;<ref name="stat-nkr">{{cite web |title=De Jure Population (Urban, Rural) by Age and Ethnicity |url=http://census.stat-nkr.am/nkr/5-1.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081003111153/http://census.stat-nkr.am/nkr/5-1.pdf |archive-date=3 October 2008 |access-date=11 November 2012 |publisher=National Statistical Service of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic}}</ref> Javakheti: 95%<ref name="geostat"/>).<br />Yellow: Historically Armenian areas with presently no or insignificant Armenian population (Western Armenia and Nakhchivan).<br>''Note: Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) is shown in pre-2020 de facto borders.'']]
[[File:Mount Ararat and the Yerevan skyline.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|right|Mount Ararat, today located in Turkey, as seen from Armenia's capital Yerevan. The mountain is a symbol of Western Armenia for many Armenians.{{efn|"The lands of Western Armenia which Mt. Ararat represent..."<ref name="Shirinian">{{cite book|first=Lorne|last=Shirinian|year=1992|title=The Republic of Armenia and the rethinking of the North-American Diaspora in literature|publisher=Edwin Mellen Press|isbn=978-0773496132|page=78}}</ref> "Mount Ararat is the symbol of banal irredentism for the territories of Western Armenia."<ref>{{cite web|last=Adriaans|first=Rik|title=Sonorous Borders: National Cosmology & the Mediation of Collective Memory in Armenian Ethnopop Music |url=http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=224083 |publisher=University of Amsterdam |format=MSc Thesis |year=2011 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305121009/http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=224083 |archive-date=5 March 2016 |page=48}}</ref> "...Ararat, which is in the territory of modern Turkey but symbolizes the dream of all Armenians around the globe about the lands lost to the west of this biblical mountain."<ref>{{cite news|last=Khojoyan|first=Sara|title=Beyond and Inside: Turk look on Ararat with Armenian perception|url=http://www.armenianow.com/features/8966/beyond_and_inside_turk_look_on_ara|work=ArmeniaNow|date=1 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117225021/http://www.armenianow.com/features/8966/beyond_and_inside_turk_look_on_ara |archive-date=17 November 2015}}</ref>}}]]

'''United Armenia''' ({{lang-hy|Միացեալ Հայաստան|translit=Miats'eal Hayastan}}){{Efn|Reformed spelling: Միացյալ Հայաստան}}, also known as '''Greater Armenia''' or '''Great Armenia''', is an Armenian ethno-nationalist [[Social:Irredentism|irredentist]] concept referring to areas within the traditional Armenian homeland—the Armenian Highland—which are currently or have historically been mostly populated by Armenians. The idea of what Armenians see as unification of their historical lands was prevalent throughout the 20th century and has been advocated by individuals, various organizations and institutions, including the nationalist parties Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF or Dashnaktsutyun) and Heritage, the ASALA and others.

The ARF idea of "United Armenia" incorporates claims to [[Social:Western Armenia|Western Armenia]] (eastern [[Place:Turkey|Turkey]]), Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), the landlocked exclave Nakhchivan (Nakhichevan) of [[Place:Azerbaijan|Azerbaijan]] and the Javakheti (Javakhk) region of [[Place:Georgia (country)|Georgia]].<ref name="crisisgroup"/><ref name="FOOTNOTEHarutyunyan200989"/> Nagorno-Karabakh and Javakhk are overwhelmingly inhabited by Armenians.  Western Armenia and Nakhchivan had significant Armenian populations in the early 20th century, but no longer do. The Armenian population of Western Armenia was almost completely exterminated during the 1915 Armenian genocide, when the millennia-long Armenian presence in this region largely ended and Armenian cultural heritage was mainly destroyed by the Ottoman government.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hovannisian |first=Richard G.|title=The Armenian Genocide: Cultural and Ethical Legacies|year=2008|publisher=Transaction Publishers|location=New Brunswick, NJ|isbn=978-1-4128-3592-3|page=22|author-link=Richard G. Hovannisian}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Jones|first=Adam|title=Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction|year=2013|publisher=[[Company:Routledge|Routledge]]|isbn=978-1-134-25981-6|page=114}}</ref> In 1919, the ARF-dominated government of the [[Place:First Republic of Armenia|First Republic of Armenia]] declared the formal unification of Armenian lands. The ARF bases its claims to Western Armenia, now controlled by [[Place:Turkey|Turkey]], on the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres, which was effectively negated by subsequent historical events. These territorial claims are often seen as the ultimate goal of the recognition of the Armenian Genocide and as part of Armenian genocide reparations.<ref>{{cite news|last=Theriault|first=Henry |title=The Global Reparations Movement and Meaningful Resolution of the Armenian Genocide|work=The Armenian Weekly|date=6 May 2010|url=http://www.armenianweekly.com/2010/05/06/reparations-2/| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100510063921/http://www.armenianweekly.com/2010/05/06/reparations-2/ |archive-date= 10 May 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Stepanyan|first=S.|year=2012|language=hy|location=Yerevan|publisher=Armenian Academy of Sciences|journal=Lraber Hasarakakan Gitutyunneri|title=Հայոց ցեղասպանության ճանաչումից ու դատապարտումից մինչև Հայկական հարցի արդարացի լուծում [From the Recognition and Condemnation of the Armenian Genocide to the Just Resolution of the Armenian Question]|url=http://lraber.asj-oa.am/5595/|issue=1|page=34|issn=0320-8117|quote=Արդի ժամանակներում Հայկական հարցը իր էությամբ նպատակամղված է Թուրքիայի կողմից արևմտահայության բնօրրան, ցեղասպանության և տեղահանության ենթարկված Արևմտյան Հայաստանը' հայրենիքը կորցրած հայերի ժառանգներին և Հայաստանի Հանրապետությանը վերադարձնելուն:|access-date=26 September 2014|archive-date=10 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110004844/http://lraber.asj-oa.am/5595/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The most recent Armenian irredentist movement, the Karabakh movement which began in 1988, sought to unify Nagorno-Karabakh with then-Soviet Armenia. As a result of the subsequent war with [[Place:Azerbaijan|Azerbaijan]], Armenian forces established effective control over most of Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts, thus succeeding in the ''de facto'' unification of Armenia and Karabakh.{{sfn|Ambrosio|2001|p=146|ps=: "...&nbsp;Armenia's successful irredentist project in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan."}}<ref name="Hughes 2002 211">{{cite book|last=Hughes|first=James|title=Ethnicity and Territory in the Former Soviet Union: Regions in Conflict|year=2002|publisher=Cass|location=London|isbn=978-0-7146-8210-5|page=211|quote=Indeed, Nagorno-Karabakh is de facto part of Armenia.}}</ref> Some Armenian nationalists consider Nagorno-Karabakh "the first stage of a United Armenia."<ref>{{cite news|title=ARS Marks Centennial With Pilgrimage to Der Zor, Armenia and Karabakh|url=http://asbarez.com/90971/ars-marks-centennial-with-pilgrimage-to-der-zor-armenia-and-karabakh/|work=Asbarez |date=30 December 2010|quote=...Artsakh, the guiding light of Armenian victories and the first stage of a United Armenia. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725084643/https://asbarez.com/ars-marks-centennial-with-pilgrimage-to-der-zor-armenia-and-karabakh/ |archive-date=25 July 2021}}</ref>

==History of the claims==
[[File:Armenians ethnic map 1905.png|thumb|upright=1.35|An ethnographic map of the Armenian Highland (and the wider Asia Minor and the Caucasus), made by Richard Andree in 1905. Armenians are labeled in blue.<ref>{{cite web |title=Europe, Volkerverteilung und Religionsgebiete |url=https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~239285~5511714:Europe,-Volkerverteilung-und-Religi |website=davidrumsey.com |publisher=David Rumsey Historical Map Collection |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201008011128/https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~239285~5511714:Europe,-Volkerverteilung-und-Religi |archive-date=8 October 2020}}</ref>]]

===Origins===
In its current meaning, the term "United Armenia" was coined during the Armenian national awakening in the second half of the 19th century.
During this period, the Armenian-populated areas were divided between the [[Place:Russian Empire|Russian Empire]] ([[Social:Eastern Armenia|Eastern Armenia]]) and the [[Place:Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Empire]] ([[Social:Western Armenia|Western Armenia]]).<ref>{{cite book|last=Kaligian|first=Dikran Mesrob|title=Armenian Organization and Ideology under Ottoman Rule: 1908–1914|publisher=Transaction|location=New Brunswick, NJ|isbn=978-1-4128-4834-3|page=1|date=31 December 2011}}</ref> One of the earliest uses of the phrase "United Armenia" is by the English Society of Friends of Russian Freedom in an 1899 edition of ''Free Russia'' monthly. It quotes a confidential report of Grigory Golitsin (the Russian governor of the [[Earth:Caucasus|Caucasus]]) sent to Tsar Nicholas II "containing suggestions for a future policy." Golitsin writes of a nationalist movement which "aims at the restoration of the independent Armenia of the past", and that "their ideal is one great and united Armenia."<ref>''Free Russia'', the Organ of the English Society of Friends of Russian Freedom, Volumes 6-10, 1895–1899, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=_t85AQAAMAAJ&dq=%22United+Armenia%22&pg=RA4-PA55 55]</ref>

The idea of an independent and united Armenia was the main goal of the Armenian national liberation movement during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ishkanian|first=Armine|title=Democracy Building and Civil Society in Post-Soviet Armenia|year=2008|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|isbn=978-0-203-92922-3|page=5}}</ref> By the 1890s, a low-intensity armed conflict developed between the three major Armenian parties—the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnak), Hnchak and Armenakan— and the Ottoman government.<ref>{{cite book|last=Herzig|first=Edmund|title=The Armenians: Past and Present in the Making of National Identity|year=2005|publisher=RoutledgeCurzon|location=London|isbn=978-0-203-00493-7|page=79|author2=Kurkchiyan, Marina }}</ref> Calls from the great powers for reforms in the Armenian provinces and Armenian aspirations to independence resulted in the Hamidian massacres between 1894 and 1896, during which up to 300,000 Armenian civilians were slaughtered by the order of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, after whom the massacres were named.<ref>{{cite book|last=Totten|first=Samuel|title=Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts|year=2009|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|isbn=978-0-203-89043-1|pages=56–57|author-link=Samuel Totten}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Freedman|first=Jeri|title=The Armenian genocide|year=2009|publisher=Rosen Pub. Group|location=New York|isbn=978-1-4042-1825-3|page=12}}</ref> After the 1908 Young Turk Revolution, some Armenians felt that the situation would improve; however, a year later the Adana massacre took place and Turkish-Armenian relations deteriorated further.<ref>{{cite book|last=Naimark|first=Norman M.|title=Fires of hatred : ethnic cleansing in twentieth-century Europe|year=2002|publisher=Harvard University Press|location=Cambridge, MA|isbn=978-0-674-00994-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/firesofhatred00norm/page/83 83]|author-link=Norman Naimark |url=https://archive.org/details/firesofhatred00norm/page/83}}</ref> After the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913, the Ottoman government was pressured to accept the Armenian reform package concerning the Armenian provinces in early 1914.<ref>{{cite book|last=Akçam|first=Taner|title=The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire|year=2012|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, NJ |isbn=978-0-691-15333-9|page=129|author-link=Taner Akçam}}</ref>

=== World War I and the Armenian genocide  ===
[[File:Armenian Genocide Map-en.svg|upright=1.35|thumb|Map of the 1915 Armenian genocide]]

The Armenians of eastern Ottoman Empire were exterminated by the Ottoman government in 1915 and the following years. An estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed,<ref>{{cite web|title=Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex|url=http://www.genocide-museum.am/eng/Description_and_history.php|publisher=Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute|access-date=5 August 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Kifner|first=John|title=Armenian Genocide of 1915: An Overview|url=https://www.nytimes.com/ref/timestopics/topics_armeniangenocide.html|newspaper={{wipe|The New York Times}}|access-date=5 August 2013|author-link=John Kifner}}</ref> while the survivors found refuge in other countries. These events, which are known as the Armenian genocide, are officially denied by the Turkish state, which falsely claims the killings were a result of a "civil war."<ref>{{cite book|last=Lewy|first=Guenter|title=The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide|year=2005|publisher=University of Utah Press|location=Salt Lake City|isbn=978-0-87480-849-0|page=115}}</ref> The Ottoman government successfully ended the over two thousand year Armenian presence in [[Social:Western Armenia|Western Armenia]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Diaspora and Memory: Figures of Displacement in Contemporary Literature, Arts and Politics|year=2007|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=978-90-420-2129-7|page=174|author1=Marie-Aude Baronian |author2=Stephan Besser |author3=Yolande Jansen }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Shirinian|first=Lorne|title=The Republic of Armenia and the rethinking of the North-American Diaspora in literature|year=1992|publisher=E. Mellen Press|isbn=978-0-7734-9613-2|page=ix}}</ref>

By 1916, most of [[Social:Western Armenia|Western Armenia]] was occupied by the Russian Empire as part of the Caucasian Campaign of World War I. In parts of the occupied areas, especially around Van, an Armenian autonomy was briefly set up. The Russian army left the region due to the Revolution of 1917. The Ottoman Empire quickly regained the territories from the small number of irregular Armenian units. In the Caucasus, the Special Transcaucasian Committee was set up after the February Revolution.<ref>{{cite book|last=Peimani |first=Hooman|title=Conflict and Security in Central Asia and the Caucasus|year=2008 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |location=Santa Barbara, CA|isbn=978-1-59884-054-4|page=237}}</ref>

The Bolsheviks took power in Russia through the October Revolution and soon signed the Armistice of Erzincan to stop the combat in Turkish Armenia. Russian forces abandoned their positions and left the area under weak Armenian control. The Bolsheviks set up the Transcaucasian Commissariat in the Caucasus. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed on 3 March 1918 and the Ottoman army started to regain the lost territories, taking over Kars by 25 April.<ref>{{cite book|last=McMeekin|first=Sean|title=The Berlin-Baghdad Express: the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power |url=https://archive.org/details/berlinbaghdadexp00sean|url-access=registration |year=2010|publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard University Press|location=Cambridge, MA|isbn=978-0-674-05853-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/berlinbaghdadexp00sean/page/331 331]}}</ref> Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with the Ottoman Empire and by April 1918 the Transcaucasian Federation proclaimed its independence from Russia. This fragile federation of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan collapsed when the Turks invaded the Caucasus region. The Armenian units defeated the Turks at the Battle of Sardarabad, just 40 kilometers away from Armenia's future capital [[Place:Yerevan|Yerevan]], preventing the complete destruction of the Armenian nation.<ref>{{cite book |last=Balakian|first=Peter|title=The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response|publisher=HarperCollins |location=New York|year=2003|page=[https://archive.org/details/burningtigris00pete/page/321 321]|isbn=0-06-055870-9|url=https://archive.org/details/burningtigris00pete/page/321}}</ref>

[[File:Armenia in Paris Peace Conference 1919.jpg|upright=1.35|thumb|A map presented by the Armenian National Delegation (representing Ottoman Armenians){{sfn|Adalian|2010|p=227}} to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.<ref>{{cite book|title=America as Mandatary for Armenia|url=https://archive.org/details/americaasmandata00amer |year=1919|publisher=American Committee for the Independence of Armenia|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/americaasmandata00amer/page/n7 2]}}</ref>]]

A 1918 book by American scholars Lothrop Stoddard and Glenn Frank, titled ''Stakes of the War'' listed 8 solutions to the Armenian Question as proposed by different parties. The second proposal, titled "United Armenia", is described as follows:<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://archive.org/stream/stakeswarsummar00frangoog#page/n310/mode/2up |title = Stakes of the war; summary of the various problems, claims, and interests of the nations at the peace table|publisher = New York, The Century co.|year = 1918}}</ref>
{{blockquote|A union of territories of Turkish, Russian, and Persian Armenia would result in enough area to constitute an independent state, but in no considerable section of this area would the Armenians form a clear majority of the population. To be sure, the Armenians would be the most intelligent and progressive element; but their numbers and their vitality has been greatly reduced by the long series of persecutions and massacres, and there has been such extensive destruction of property in these territories, that their potential force has been reduced as to form a serious bar to their gaining the ascendancy over the more numerous racial elements in the territory.}}

=== First Republic of Armenia: 1918–1920 ===
[[File:Alexander Khatisian.png|thumb|upright=0.8|Armenia's Prime Minister Alexander Khatisian declared the formal unification of the Armenian lands in 1919.]]

The Armenian National Council declared the independence of the Armenian provinces on 28 May 1918.{{sfn|Hovannisian|1971|p=[https://archive.org/details/republicofarmeni0000hova/page/33 33]}} It was recognized by the Ottoman Empire by the Treaty of Batum on 4 June 1918.<ref>{{cite book|last=Derogy |first=Jacques|title=Resistance and Revenge: The Armenian Assassination of the Turkish Leaders Responsible for the 1915 Massacres and Deportations|year=1990|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=978-1-4128-3316-5|page=45}}</ref> After its defeat in World War I, the Ottoman Empire and the Allies signed the Armistice of Mudros by which the Turkish troops left the Caucasus and by 1919 the Republic of Armenia established control over the former Kars Oblast, the city of Iğdır and its surrounding territory, including Mount Ararat.{{sfn|Hille|2010|p=84}}{{sfn|Suny|1993|p=[https://archive.org/details/lookingtowardara00rona/page/128 128]}}

On 28 May 1919, on the first anniversary of the Republic of Armenia, the government of the newly founded country symbolically declared the union of Eastern and Western Armenia, the latter of which was still under the full control of the Turks.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hovannisian|first=Richard G.|title=The Armenian people from ancient to modern times|year=2004|publisher=St. Martin's Press|location=New York|isbn=978-1-4039-6422-9|page=323}}</ref> Alexander Khatisian, the Armenian Prime Minister, read the declaration:<ref>{{cite book|last=Khatisian|first=Alexander|title=Հայաստանի Հանրապետության ծագումն ու զարգացումը [The Creation and Development of the Republic of Armenia] |year=1930|location=Athens|pages=129–130|author-link=Alexander Khatisian}}</ref>{{sfn|Hovannisian|1971|pp=461-462}}
{{cquote|To restore the integrity of Armenia and to secure the complete freedom and prosperity of its people, the Government of Armenia, abiding by the solid will and desire of the entire Armenian people, declares that from this day forward the separated parts of Armenia are everlastingly combined as an independent political entity.

Now in promulgating this act of unification and independence of the ancestral Armenian lands located in Transcaucasia and the Ottoman Empire, the Government of Armenia declares that the political system of United Armenia is a democratic republic and that it has become the Government of the United Republic of Armenia.

Thus, the people of Armenia are henceforth the supreme lord and master of their consolidated fatherland, and the Parliament and Government of Armenia stand as the supreme legislative and executive authority conjoining the free people of United Armenia.}}

====Treaty of Sèvres ====
[[File:Boundary between Turkey and Armenia as determined by Woodrow Wilson 1920.jpg|thumb|The Armenian-Turkish border by the Treaty of Sèvres]] 
Almost two years after the [[Place:First Republic of Armenia|Republic of Armenia]] was established, on 23 April 1920, the United States officially recognized it. Its frontiers were to be determined later. On 26 April 1920, the Supreme Council of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers in Paris (British Prime Minister Lloyd George, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau and Italian Prime Minister Francesco Saverio Nitti) requested that the United States accept the mandate over Armenia and to make an Arbitral Decision to determine the boundaries of Armenia with what is now Turkey.{{sfn|Papian|2009|p=152}} President [[Biography:Woodrow Wilson|Woodrow Wilson]] agreed to act as arbitrator and draw a mutually acceptable border between the two nations. In July 1920, the US State Department founded the Committee upon the Arbitration of the Boundary between Turkey and Armenia, headed by William Westermann. The Treaty of Sèvres was signed on 10 August 1920 between the Ottoman Empire and the Allied Powers. On 28 September 1920, the Committee submitted a report that defined the border between the two countries. It guaranteed access to the Mediterranean sea for Armenia via Trebizond and proclaimed present-day Turkey's border regions demilitarization frontier line.{{sfn|Papian|2009|p=153}}

A territory of {{convert|40000|sqmi|km2|order=flip}}, formerly part of the [[Place:Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Empire]], was given to Armenia. Based on the calculations the committee made, the ethnic structure of the 3,570,000 population would have been: 49% Muslims (Turks, Kurds, Tartar Azerbaijanis, and others), 40% Armenians, 5% Laz, 4% Greeks, and 1% others. It was expected that in the case Armenian refugees' return, they would make up to 50% of the population.{{sfn|Papian|2009|p=154}} Two months after the committee submitted the report to the State Department, President [[Biography:Woodrow Wilson|Woodrow Wilson]] received it on 12 November 1920. Ten days later, Wilson signed the report entitled "Decision of the President of the United States of America respecting the Frontier between Turkey and Armenia, Access for Armenia to the Sea, and the Demilitarization of Turkish Territory adjacent to the Armenian Frontier."{{sfn|Papian|2009|p=155}} The report was sent to the US ambassador in Paris Hugh Campbell Wallace on 24 November 1920.{{sfn|Papian|2009|p=158}} On 6 December 1920, Wallace delivered the documents to the secretary-general of the peace conference for submission to the Allied Supreme Council.{{sfn|Papian|2009|p=158}}

Treaty of Sèvres was later annulled following the successful Turkish War of Independence against Allied Powers and affiliated forces, which led to the abolition of the empire and founding of the modern [[Place:Turkey|Republic of Turkey]] with the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923.

==== Fall of the First Republic ====
In late September 1920, a war erupted between Armenia and the [[Biography:Mustafa Kemal Atatürk|Mustafa Kemal]]-led Turkish nationalists (Government of the Grand National Assembly) led by Kâzım Karabekir took place. Turks captured Kars on 30 October 1920.{{sfn|Marshall|2010|p=142}} With the Turkish army in Alexandropol, the Bolsheviks invaded the country from the north east, and on 29 November 1920, they proclaimed Armenia a Soviet state. On 2 December 1920, Armenia became a Soviet state according to a joint proclamation of Armenia's Defence Minister Dro and Soviet representative Boris Legran in [[Place:Yerevan|Yerevan]]. Armenia was forced to sign the Treaty of Alexandropol with the Government of the Grand National Assembly on the night of 2–3 December 1920.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hovannisian|first=Richard G.|title=The Republic of Armenia, Vol. IV: Between Crescent and Sickle – Partition and Sovietization|year=1996|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley, CA|url=https://archive.org/details/republicofarmeni0000hova|isbn=978-0-520-08804-7 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/republicofarmeni0000hova/page/394 394–396]|author-link=Richard Hovannisian }}</ref>{{sfn|Marshall|2010|p=143}}{{sfn|Chorbajian|1994|p=132}} The Treaty of Sèvres and Wilson's award remained "dead letters."<ref name="Sicker">{{cite book|last=Sicker|first=Martin|title=The Islamic World in Decline: From the Treaty of Karlowitz to the Disintegration of the Ottoman Empire |year=2001|publisher=Praeger|location=Westport, CN |isbn=978-0-275-96891-5|page=225}}</ref>

Just after the Soviet invasion of Armenia in November 1920, the Soviet Azerbaijani leader Nariman Narimanov declared that "the old borders between Armenia and Azerbaijan are declared null and void. Mountainous Karabagh, Zangezur, and Nakhichevan are recognized as integral parts of the Socialist Republic of Armenia."{{sfn|Chorbajian|1994|p=133}} Despite these assurances, both Nakhichevan and Karabakh were kept under Azerbaijani control for another eight months.{{sfn|Chorbajian|1994|p=135}} On 16 March 1921, Soviet Russia and the Government of the Grand National Assembly signed the Treaty of Moscow. By this treaty, Kars and Ardahan were ceded to Turkey, and Nakhichevan was put under "protectorate" of Azerbaijan.{{sfn|Hille|2010|pp=157-158}} The Treaty of Kars was signed between the Grand National Assembly Government on one side and Armenian SSR, Georgian SSR and Azerbaijan SSR on the other, reaffirming the Treaty of Moscow.{{sfn|Hille|2010|p=159}}

===Post-World War II: 1945–1953 ===
[[File:Armenian and Georgian claims to Turkish Territory, map done by British Foreign Office, May, 1946..jpg|thumb|Armenian and Georgian claims to Turkish Territory, British Foreign Office, May 1946]]
After the end of [[Social:World War II|World War II]] in Europe, the Soviet Union made territorial claims to Turkey. {{wipe|Joseph Stalin}} pushed Turkey to cede Kars and Ardahan, thus returning the pre-[[Social:World War I|World War I]] boundary between the Russian and Ottoman empires. Besides these provinces, the Soviet Union also claimed the Straits (see Turkish Straits crisis). "Stalin, perhaps, expected that the Turks, shocked by the Red Army's triumph, would give up, and Washington and London accept it as a ''fait accompli''," writes Jamil Hasanli.<ref name="Hasanli">{{cite book|last=Hasanli|first=Jamil|title=Stalin and the Turkish Crisis of the Cold War, 1945–1953|year=2011|publisher=Lexington Books|location=Lanham|isbn=978-0-7391-6807-3|page=124}}</ref> Athena Leoussi added, "While Stalin's motives can be debated, for Armenians at home and abroad the re-emergence of the Armenian Question revived hopes for territorial unification".{{sfn|Leoussi|Gal|Smith|2010|p=123}} On 7 June 1945 Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov informed the Turkish ambassador in Moscow that the USSR demanded a revision of its border with Turkey.{{sfn|Suny|1993|p=225}}

To repopulate the claimed areas with Armenians, the Soviet government organized a repatriation of Armenians living abroad, mostly survivors of the Armenian Genocide.<ref>{{cite book|last=Olson|first=James Stuart|title=An ethnohistorical dictionary of the Russian and Soviet empires|year=1994|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, CN|isbn=978-0-313-27497-8|page=49}}</ref>{{sfn|Leoussi|Gal|Smith|2010|p=123}} Between 1946 and 1948, 90,000 to 100,000 Armenians from Lebanon, Syria, Greece, Iran, Romania, France, and elsewhere moved to Soviet Armenia.{{sfn|Libaridian|2007|p=25}}{{sfn|Suny|1993|p=225}}

An Office of Strategic Services (predecessor of the CIA) document dated 31 July 1944 reported that the Armenian Revolutionary Federation changed its extreme anti-Soviet sentiment due to the rise of the Soviet power at the end of the war.<ref>{{cite news|last=Sassounian|first=Harut|title=1943 US Intelligence Report: All Armenians Demand Return of Lands from Turkey|url=http://www.armenianweekly.com/2013/07/30/1943-us-intelligence-report-all-armenians-demand-return-of-lands-from-turkey/|newspaper=The Armenian Weekly|date=30 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725085017/https://armenianweekly.com/2013/07/30/1943-us-intelligence-report-all-armenians-demand-return-of-lands-from-turkey/ |archive-date=25 July 2021}}</ref> In a memorandum sent to the Moscow Conference, Head of the Armenian Church Gevorg VI expressed hope that "justice will finally be rendered" to the Armenians by the "liberation of Turkish Armenia and its annexation to Soviet Armenia."{{sfn|Libaridian|2007|pp=24-25}} Armenia's Communist leader Grigor Harutunian defended the claims, describing Kars and Ardahan "of vital importance for the Armenian people as a whole." The Soviet Armenian élite suggested that the Armenians have earned the right to Kars and Ardahan by their contribution in the Soviet struggle against fascism.{{sfn|Libaridian|2007|p=225}} Armenian diaspora organizations also supported the idea.{{sfn|Suny|1993|p=225}}

As the relations between the West and the Soviet Union deteriorated with the US and the UK backing Turkey,<ref>{{cite book|last=Mandel|first=Maud S.|title=In the Aftermath of Genocide: Armenians and Jews in Twentieth-Century France|year=2003|publisher=Duke Univ. Press|location=Durham|isbn=978-0-8223-3121-6|page=194}}</ref>{{sfn|Suny|1993|p=225}} Soviet claims were out of the agenda by 1947. However, it was not until 1953, after Stalin's death, that they officially abandoned their claims,<ref name="Hasanli"/> thus ending the dispute.<ref>{{cite book|title=USAK Yearbook of International Politics and Law Volume 3|year=2010|publisher=International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)|location=Ankara|isbn=978-605-4030-26-2|page=250}}</ref>

===Late Cold War: 1965–1987===
A wave of Armenian nationalism started in the mid-1960s in the [[Place:Soviet Union|Soviet Union]] after Nikita Khrushchev came to power and granted relative freedom to the Soviet people during the De-Stalinization era. On 24 April 1965, the 50th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, a mass demonstration took place in [[Place:Yerevan|Yerevan]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Ishkanian|first=Armine|title=Democracy Building and Civil Society in Post-Soviet Armenia|year=2008|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|isbn=978-0-203-92922-3|page=7}}</ref> Thousands of Armenians poured into the streets of Yerevan to commemorate the victims of the genocide; however, their goal was not to "challenge the authority of the Soviet government", but "draw the government's attention" to the genocide and persuade the "Soviet government to assist them in reclaiming their lost lands."<ref name="Central Asia and the Caucasus">{{cite book|last=Atabaki|first=Touraj|title=Central Asia and the Caucasus: Transnationalism and Diaspora|year=2004|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=978-0-203-49582-7|pages=135–137|author2=Mehendale, Sanjyot }}</ref> The Kremlin, taking into account the demands of the demonstrators, commissioned a memorial for the genocide. The memorial, which was built on Tsitsernakaberd hill, was completed in 1967.<ref name="Central Asia and the Caucasus"/>

[[File:Yerablur Asala logo.jpg|thumb|The logo of ASALA, depicted here on a memorial at the Yerablur cemetery, was the outline map of United Armenia.]]

The 1960s and 1970s saw a rise in underground political and armed struggle against the Soviet Union and the Turkish state in and outside of Armenia. In 1966, an underground nationalist party called the National United Party was founded by Haykaz Khachatryan in Yerevan. It secretly operated in Soviet Armenia from 1966 to the late 1980s and, after the imprisonment of its founding members in 1968, it was led by Paruyr Hayrikyan. It advocated for the creation of United Armenia through self-determination.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cohen|first=Ariel|title=Russian Imperialism: Development and Crisis |year=1998|publisher=Praeger|location=Westport, CN |isbn=978-0-275-96481-8|page=107}}</ref> Most of its members were arrested and the party was banned. Though the NUP was blamed for the 1977 Moscow bombings,<ref>{{cite book|last=Ramet|first=Sabrina P.|title=Religion and Nationalism in Soviet and East European Politics, REV. Ed.|year=1989|publisher=Duke University Press|location=Durham|isbn=978-0-8223-0891-1|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=50GTIhntKvYC&dq=1977+moscow+%22National+United+Party+%22&pg=PA190 190]}}</ref> according to historian Jay Bergman it the mastermind of the bombing has "never been determined conclusively."<ref>Meeting the demands of reason; by prof. Jay Bergman, Cornell University Press, {{ISBN|0-8014-4731-3}}, 2009, p. 256</ref>

According to Gerard Libaridian, "by the 1970s, the recognition of the Armenian genocide became a very important objective of the Armenian cause and diaspora political parties linked the recognition of the genocide and the dream of a greater Armenia because Turkey's recognition of the genocide would constitute the legal basis for the Armenian claims on Western Armenia."<ref>{{cite book|last=Libaridian|first=Gerard J.|title=The challenge of statehood: Armenian political thinking since independence|year=1999|publisher=Blue Crane Books|location=Watertown, MA|isbn=978-1-886434-10-3|page=128|author-link=Gerard Libaridian}}</ref> From the mid-1970s to the late 1980s, several Armenian militant (often considered terrorist) groups operated in the Middle East and Western Europe. Most notably the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) carried out armed attacks on Turkish diplomatic missions around the world.<ref>{{cite book|last=Jessup|first=John E.|title=An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution: 1945–1996|year=1998|publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport, CN|isbn=978-0-313-28112-9|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=hP7jJAkTd9MC&dq=ASALA+1975&pg=PA39 39]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Gerringer|first=Arthur E.|title=Terrorism: from one millennium to the next|year=2002|publisher=San Jose, Calif.|isbn=978-0-595-24286-3|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=X51zPY3_H6IC&dq=ASALA+1975&pg=PA239 239]}}</ref> Two ARF-affiliated groups—the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide (JCAG) and the Armenian Revolutionary Army (ARA)—also carried out similar attacks, mainly in Western Europe.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hovannisian|first=Richard G.|title=The Armenian Genocide: Cultural and Ethical Legacies|year=2008 |publisher=Transaction Publishers|location=New Brunswick, NJ|isbn=978-1-4128-3592-3|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=CB4Bh0-zrgoC&dq=jcag+ara+arf&pg=PA173 173]|author-link=Richard G. Hovannisian}}</ref> David C. Rapoport argues that these organizations were inspired by [[Biography:Gourgen Yanikian|Gourgen Yanikian]], a 77-year-old Armenian genocide survivor, who assassinated two Turkish consular officials in California in 1973 as an act of revenge against Turkey.<ref>{{cite book|last=Rapoport|first=David C.|title=Inside Terrorist Organizations|year=2001|publisher=Psychology Press|location=London|isbn=978-0-7146-8179-5|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=FnvCEOZLf8YC&dq=ASALA+1975&pg=PA229 229]}}</ref>

The ASALA was the largest of the three and was mostly composed of Lebanese Armenian young adults, who claimed revenge for the Armenian genocide, which the Turkish state denies. The concept of United Armenia was one of the ultimate goals of ASALA.{{sfn|Harutyunyan|2009|p=66}}<ref>{{cite book|title=Turkey: A Country Study|year=2004|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|isbn=978-1-4191-9126-8|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=EzzYk_gzpJ0C&dq=ASALA+1975&pg=PA368 368]|author=Federal Research Division|author-link=Federal Research Division}}</ref> William Dalrymple and [[Biography:Olivier Roy (professor)|Olivier Roy]] claim that Armenian Genocide became internationalized as a result of the activities of the Armenian militant groups in the Western European countries.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dalrymple|first=William|title=From The Holy Mountain|year=2004|publisher=Penguin Books India|location=Ne Delhi|isbn=978-0-14-303108-6|page=86}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Roy|first=Olivier|title=Turkey Today: A European Country?|year=2004|publisher=Anthem Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-84331-173-7|page=170}}</ref>

===Nagorno-Karabakh Wars: 1988–2023===

In February 1988 a popular nationalist movement emerged in Soviet Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO), a small Armenian-populated enclave under the jurisdiction of Soviet Azerbaijan since 1923.{{sfn|Ambrosio|2001|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=0hLzXEO-fAQC&pg=PA148 148]}} The movement demanded the unification of the two entities, reviving the idea of a united Armenia.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Høiris|first1=Ole|last2=Yürükel|first2=Sefa Martin|title=Contrasts and Solutions in the Caucasus|date=1998|publisher=Aarhus University Press|isbn=9788772887081|page=233|quote=Since 1988, Nagorno-Karabakh (called 'Artsakh' by the Armenians), became the symbolic centre of the imagined, lost and regained Erkir. The old romantic idea of both an independent and united Armenia revived with Nagorno-Karabakh.}}</ref>

On 20 February 1988, the Nagorno-Karabakh Supreme Council (the regional legislature) issued a request to transfer the region from Soviet Azerbaijan to Soviet Armenia.{{sfn|Ambrosio|2001|p=147}}{{sfn|de Waal|2003|p=10}} The Moscow government declined the claims, while hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in [[Place:Yerevan|Yerevan]] in support of the idea.{{sfn|Verluise|1995|p=86}} Few days later, on 26 February, an anti-Armenian ''pogrom'' broke out in the Azerbaijani seaside industrial city Sumgait, forcing thousands of Armenians to leave Azerbaijan ''en masse''.{{sfn|Verluise|1995|p=87}}

On 15 June 1988, the Supreme Council of Soviet Armenia voted to accept Nagorno-Karabakh into Armenia.{{sfn|de Waal|2003|p=289}} On 17 June 1988, the Azerbaijan Supreme Soviet refused to transfer the area to Armenia, saying that it was part of Azerbaijan.{{sfn|de Waal|2003|p=289}} The leading members of the Karabakh Committee, a group of intellectuals leading the demonstrations, were arrested in December 1988, but were freed in May 1989.{{sfn|Ambrosio|2001|p=147}} On 1 December 1989, the Soviet Armenian Supreme Council and NKAO Supreme Council declared the unification of the two entities (օրենք «Հայկական ԽՍՀ-ի և Լեռնային Ղարաբաղի վերամիավորման մասին»).{{sfn|de Waal|2003|p=290}} In January 1990, another ''pogrom'' took place against Armenians, this time in Baku. In the meantime, most Azerbaijanis of Armenia and Armenians of Azerbaijan left their homes and moved to their respective countries.

Pro-independence members were elected in the majority to the Armenian parliament in the 1990 election.{{sfn|de Waal|2003|p=111}} On 23 August 1990, the Armenian parliament passed a resolution on sovereignty.{{sfn|de Waal|2003|p=111}} The tensions grew even larger after the Soviet and Azeri forces deported thousands of Armenian from Shahumyan during Operation Ring in April and May 1991. After the unsuccessful August Putsch, more Soviet republics declared independence. On 2 September 1991, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic proclaimed independence.<ref>{{cite book|last=Zürcher|first=Christoph|title=The Post-Soviet Wars: Rebellion, Ethnic Conflict, and Nationhood in the Caucasus|year=2007|publisher=New York University Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-8147-9709-9|page=168|author-link=:de:Christoph Zürcher}}</ref> On 21 September 1991, the Armenian independence referendum was held with the overwhelming majority voting for the independence of Armenia from the Soviet Union. On 26 November 1991, the Azerbaijani parliament abolished the autonomy of Nagorno-Karabakh.{{sfn|de Waal|2003|p=162}} On 10 December 1991, an independence referendum was held in Nagorno-Karabakh, boycotted by the Azeri minority, and gained a vote of 99% in favor of independence.{{sfn|de Waal|2003|p=162}}

The conflict escalated into a full-scale war with the captured Shusha by Armenian forces on 9 May 1992. By 1993, the Armenian forces took control over not only the originally disputed Nagorno-Karabakh, but also several districts surrounding the region.<ref>{{cite news|title=Caucasus City Falls to Armenian Forces|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/24/world/caucasus-city-falls-to-armenian-forces.html|access-date=10 April 2013|newspaper={{wipe|The New York Times}}|date=24 August 1993}}</ref> A ceasefire agreement was eventually signed on 5 May 1994 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. According to Thomas de Waal, three factors contributed to the victory of the Armenian side: "Azerbaijan's political and military chaos, greater Russian support for the Armenians, and the Armenians' superior fighting skills."{{sfn|de Waal|2003|p=206}} Since the 1994 ceasefire until 2020, the Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (later [[Place:Republic of Artsakh|Artsakh]]) had ''de facto'' control of the territories taken over in the war.{{sfn|Ambrosio|2001|p=149}}

In the wake of Armenia's defeat in 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, Armenian forces lost control of the occupied territories around Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as Shusha and Hadrut in Nagorno-Karabakh. In accordance with Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement, Russian peacekeepers were deployed in the Lachin corridor connecting Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh.

Following the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh from 19-20 September, which ended in the total defeat and collapse of Artsakh, Azerbaijan secured full control over the region. Unable to provide further resistance, the government of Artsakh announced its surrender and formal dissolution on 1 January 2024.<ref>{{cite news|title=Nagorno-Karabakh Republic will cease to exist from Jan 1 2024 - Nagorno-Karabakh authorities|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nagorno-karabakh-republic-will-cease-exist-jan-1-2024-nagorno-karabakh-2023-09-28/|access-date=25 October 2023|newspaper={{wipe|Reuters}}|date=28 September 2023}}</ref> Nearly all Armenians in the region fled into Armenia after Azerbaijan's victory.

==Proponents==
===Armenian Revolutionary Federation===
Since its foundation in 1890, the left-wing nationalist Armenian Revolutionary Federation (also known as Dashnaktsutyun or Dashnak/Tashnag) has been known as the main advocate for United Armenia.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Patelic |first1=Nina |title=The Effects of Nationalism on Territorial Integrity Among Armenians and Serbs |url=https://fsu.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fsu:180514/datastream/PDF/view |publisher=[[Organization:Florida State University|Florida State University]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725085125/https://fsu.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fsu:180514/datastream/PDF/view |archive-date=25 July 2021 |date=2008}}</ref> Having affiliated organizations throughout the Armenian communities abroad, the ARF is regarded as one of the most influential Armenian institutions in the world, especially in the diaspora.<ref>{{cite book|last=Christensen|first=Karen|title=Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World|year=2003|publisher=Sage Publications, Inc |location=Thousand Oaks, CA|isbn=978-0-7619-2598-9|author2=Levinson, David |page=402}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Cohen|first=Roberta|title=The Forsaken People: Case Studies of the Internally Displaced|year=1998|publisher=Brookings Institution Press|isbn=978-0-8157-1498-9|page=275|author2=Deng, Francis Mading }}</ref> According to researcher Arus Harutyunyan, the party has "made it abundantly clear that historical justice will be achieved once ethnic Armenian repatriate to united Armenia, which in addition to its existing political boundaries would include" Western Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Nakhichevan and Javakhk.<ref name="FOOTNOTEHarutyunyan200989"/> In the 1998 party program, it states that the ARF's first goal is "The creation of a Free, Independent and United Armenia. United Armenia should include inside its borders the Armenian lands [given to Armenia] by the Sevres Treaty, as well as Artsakh, Javakhk and Nakhichevan provinces."<ref name="1998 ARF program"/> "Free, Independent and United Armenia" is the party's main slogan,{{sfn|Verluise|1995|p=[https://archive.org/details/armeniaincrisis100verl/page/38 38]}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Chrysanthopoulos |first=Leonidas T.|title=Caucasus chronicles|year=2002|publisher=Gomidas Institute |location=Princeton, NJ|isbn=978-1-884630-05-7|page=72}}</ref> and was adopted as its "supreme objective" in the 10th Party Congress in Paris (1924–25).<ref>{{cite book|last=Panossian|first=Razmik |title=The Armenians: From Kings and Priests to Merchants and Commissars |year=2006|publisher=Hurst & Co. |location=London |isbn=978-0-231-51133-9|page=253}}</ref> Hrant Markarian, ARF Bureau Chairman, stated at the 2004 party congress:<ref name="Zakarian">{{cite news|last1=Zakarian|first1=Armen|title=Dashnaktsutyun Demands Autonomy For Javakheti Armenians|url=http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1573045.html|work=azatutyun.am|agency=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|date=6 February 2004}}</ref>
{{quote frame|We are against any relations between Armenia and Turkey that would mean acceptance of any preconditions by us, that would require us to give up our rights or any part of them. We will keep up pressure on Turkey until we achieve full victory, until international recognition of the fact of genocide, until the creation of a United Armenia.}}
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The Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group, founded in 2007 and funded by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, presented their final report titled "Resolution with Justice: Reparations for the Armenian Genocide" in March 2015. The group consisted of Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, Henry C. Theriault, Jermaine McCalpin, and Ara Papian.

The group suggested that the "Wilsonian Arbitral Award of territory to the Armenian Republic was binding at the time, regardless of the fact that the Treaty of Sèvres was never ratified. It follows that Turkey’s current occupation of "Wilsonian Armenia" constitutes a breach of an international obligation and is legally actionable...

The group "recognizes that reparations claims and initiatives are typically met with skepticism by those outside the victim group, including individuals who are sympathetic to the suffering of the victim group. [...] There are those who would object to this report not on the grounds that its analysis is wrong or inadequate, but that the quest for reparations for the Armenian Genocide, especially a return of land, is very unlikely to succeed."
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===Heritage Party===
Although the [[Social:Party platform|platform]] of the national liberal Heritage party makes no explicit reference to territorial claims, its leader and some its members have expressed their support for them. Heritage supports the formal recognition of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic by Armenia and has introduced bills for the recognition of the NKR to the Armenian National Assembly in 2007, 2010, and 2012. Although all three attempts were voted down by the ruling Republican Party.<ref>
*2007: {{cite news|title=Armenian Bill To Recognize Nagorno-Karabakh Criticized|url=http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1078400.html|access-date=28 June 2013|date=28 August 2007|agency=RFE/RL}}
*2010: {{cite news|title=Armenian Ruling Party Against Karabakh Recognition Bill|url=http://www.rferl.org/articleprintview/2186305.html|access-date=28 June 2013|date=10 October 2010|agency=RFE/RL}}
*2012: {{cite news|title=Karabakh recognition bill put into circulation at Armenian parliament|url=http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/121534/|access-date=28 June 2013|date=4 September 2012|agency=PanARMENIAN.Net}}</ref> Its leader, Raffi Hovannisian (post-Soviet Armenia's first foreign minister), has hinted at Western Armenia, Javakhk and Nakhichevan with "vague formulations."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Abrahamyan|first1=Aram|title=Raffi Hovhannisyan's Foreign Policy Agenda|url=http://en.aravot.am/2013/03/04/152740/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413144007/http://en.aravot.am/2013/03/04/152740/|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 April 2014|work=Aravot|date=4 March 2013|quote=Mr. Hovhannisyan also hints at Nakhijevan, Western Armenia, and Javakhk with vague formulations...}}</ref> For instance, during a 2013 speech about his future plans Hovannisian stated that "only with [the existence of a] [[Social:Legitimacy (political)|government belonging to the people]] will we have awareness of our [[Social:National interest|national interest]]—with Artsakh, Javakhk, Western Armenia—and future for our children."<ref>{{cite news|last=Musayelyan|first=Lusine|title=Րաֆֆի Հովհաննիսյան. "Մեր պայքարը շարունակվում է" [Raffii Hovannisian. "Our struggle continues"]|url=http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/25000776.html|date=29 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611030510/http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/25000776.html|archive-date=11 June 2014|agency=RFE/RL|quote=Միայն ժողովրդին պատկանող հայրենիքով կունենանք ազգային շահի գիտակցություն՝ Արցախ, Ջավախք, Արեւմտյան Հայաստան եւ մեր երեխայի ապագա:}}</ref> In 2011, a leading party member, Zaruhi Postanjyan, stated in an open letter to presidents of Armenia and NKR that by organizing a repatriation of diaspora Armenians to Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, "we will [create a] base for the liberation of our entire homeland."<ref>{{cite news|last=Postanjyan|first=Zaruhi|title=Փոստանջյանը պահանջում է հանդիսություններ [Postanjyan demands celebrations]|url=http://www.a1plus.am/am/politics/2011/11/21/zara|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140614035154/http://www.a1plus.am/52130.html|archive-date=14 June 2014|agency=A1plus|quote=...մեր սերնդին ընձեռվել է հնարավորություն' կազմակերպել հայրենաշեն ազգահավաք հայկական երկու պետություններում, որոնք կազմում են 42000 քառակուսի կիլոմետր, ինչն էլ իր հերթին հիմք է ծառայում ազատագրելու նաև մեր ամբողջական հայրենիքը...}}</ref>

In an April 2015 conference on the Armenian Genocide centenary Postanjyan stated that Armenia should "restore its territorial integrity" by claiming the "territory of its historic homeland." When asked about how realistic Armenian claims to its historic lands are, Heritage leader Hovannisian responded: "Today's romantic will become tomorrow's realist."<ref>{{cite news|last=Lazaryan|first=Tatevik|title="Ժառանգությունը" քննարկում է "Ծովից ծով Հայաստանը" վերականգնելու օրինագիծը|url=http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/26935407.html|work=azatutyun.am|agency=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|date=2 April 2015|language=hy}}</ref> In an opinion piece published in ''The Jerusalem Post'' on 11 April 2015 Hovannisian wrote that Turkey occupies Western Armenia and called for "the creation of an Armenian national hearth in historic Western Armenia." He added, "negotiations between the republics of Turkey and Armenia triggering the first-ever sovereign reciprocal demarcation of the official frontier, including but not limited to provisions for an Armenian easement to the Black Sea."<ref>{{cite news|last=Hovannisian|first=Raffi K.|title=Remembering the Armenian genocide|url=http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Remembering-the-Armenian-genocide-396789|work=The Jerusalem Post|date=11 April 2015}}</ref>

===Other===
[[File:National Democratic Pole posters, Freedom Square, Yerevan.jpg|thumb|Posters of the nationalist National Democratic Pole party in Freedom Square, Yerevan featuring a map of United Armenia, November 2022.]]

The Armenian Democratic Liberal Party (ADL, Ramgavar), a diaspora bourgeois conservative party, is also an advocate of Armenian territorial claims to historical territories. In August 1990, Edmond Azadian, a leader of the ADL told the Armenian parliament:<ref>{{cite web |last1=Astourian |first1=Stephan H. |title=From Ter-Petrosian to Kocharian: Leadership Change in Armenia |url=http://iseees.berkeley.edu/bps/publications/2000_04-asto.pdf |website=Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies |publisher=[[Organization:University of California, Berkeley|University of California, Berkeley]] |page=20 |date=2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130620084455/http://iseees.berkeley.edu/bps/publications/2000_04-asto.pdf |archive-date=20 June 2013 }}</ref>
{{blockquote|We have always maintained that the territory of this Republic of Armenia is the nucleus of tomorrow's Greater Armenia. In this respect, we expect the newly formed government to commit itself to the restoration of our historic rights. More specifically, the new Republic must include in its on-going agenda the recognition of the Armenian genocide and our historic territorial claims by the international community.}}

==Territories claimed==
The modern use of United Armenia by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) encompasses the following areas:<ref name="1998 ARF program">{{cite web|title=Ծրագիր Հայ Յեղափոխական Դաշնակցության (1998) [Armenian Revolutionary Federation Program (1998)]|url=http://www.arfd.info/hy/?p=3602|publisher=Armenian Revolutionary Federation Website|access-date=30 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611150044/http://www.arfd.info/hy/?p=3602|archive-date=11 June 2014|date=14 February 1998|language=hy|quote=ՀՅ Դաշնակցությունը նպատակադրում է.  Ա. Ազատ, Անկախ եւ Միացյալ Հայաստանի կերտում: Միացյալ Հայաստանի սահմանների մեջ պիտի մտնեն Սեւրի դաշնագրով նախատեսված հայկական հողերը, ինչպես նաեւ' Արցախի, Ջավախքի եւ Նախիջեւանի երկրամասերը: <br />The goals of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation are: A. The creation of a Free, Independent and United Armenia. United Armenia should include inside its borders the Armenian lands [given to Armenia] by the Sevres Treaty, as well as Artsakh, Javakhk and Nakhichevan provinces.}}</ref><ref name="crisisgroup">{{cite web|title=Armenia: Internal Instability Ahead |url=http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/europe/158_armenia_s_internal_instability_ahead.pdf |publisher=International Crisis Group |access-date=11 June 2014 |location=Yerevan/Brussels |page=8 |date=18 October 2004 |quote=The Dashnaktsutiun Party, which has a major following within the diaspora, states as its goals: "The creation of a Free, Independent, and United Armenia. The borders of United Armenia shall include all territories designated as Armenia by the Treaty of Sevres as well as the regions of Artzakh [the Armenian name for Nagorno-Karabakh], Javakhk, and Nakhichevan". |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234002/http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/europe/158_armenia_s_internal_instability_ahead.pdf |archive-date=3 March 2016 }}</ref>{{sfn|Harutyunyan|2009|p=89|ps=: "The ARF strives for the solution of the Armenian Cause and formation of the entire motherland with all Armenians. The party made it abundantly clear that historical justice will be achieved once ethnic Armenian repatriate to united Armenia, which in addition to its existing political boundaries would include Western Armenian territories (Eastern Turkey), Mountainous Karabagh and Nakhijevan (in Azerbaijan), and the Samtskhe-Javakheti region of the southern Georgia, bordering Armenia."}}
{| class="wikitable"  
! Area !! Part of !! Area <small>(km<sup>2</sup>)</small> !! Population !! Armenians !! % Armenian !!class="unsortable" | Source
!Notes
|- 
| Nagorno-Karabakh (''Artsakh'')
| {{flagicon|Azerbaijan}} [[Place:Azerbaijan|Azerbaijan]]
| align="center"| 11,458
| align="center"| 145,053
| align="center"| 144,683
| align="center"| {{Centre|–}}
| align="center"| {{Centre|–}}

|
* Armenians of the region ethnically cleansed with Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh
* Armenians make up 99.7% of population in 2015 ([[Place:Republic of Artsakh|Republic of Artsakh]])<ref name="stat-nkr2">{{cite web |title=De Jure Population (Urban, Rural) by Age and Ethnicity |url=http://census.stat-nkr.am/nkr/5-1.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081003111153/http://census.stat-nkr.am/nkr/5-1.pdf |archive-date=3 October 2008 |access-date=11 November 2012 |publisher=National Statistical Service of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic}}</ref><ref>The ''de facto'' controlled area by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic: {{cite web |title=De Jure Population by Administrative Territorial Distribution and Density |url=http://census.stat-nkr.am/nkr/1-4.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090306035735/http://census.stat-nkr.am/nkr/1-4.pdf |archive-date=6 March 2009 |access-date=12 July 2013 |publisher=National Statistical Service of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic}}</ref>
|-
| Javakhketi (''Javakhk'')
| {{flag|Georgia}} (Akhalkalaki and Ninotsminda districts)
| align="center"| 2,588
| align="center"| 69,561
| align="center"| 65,132
| align="center"| 93.6
| align="center"| 2014 census<ref name="geostat">{{cite web|title=Ethnic Groups by Major Administrative-territorial Units|url=http://www.geostat.ge/cms/site_images/_files/english/census/2002/03%20Ethnic%20Composition.pdf|publisher=National Statistics Office of Georgia|access-date=11 November 2012|archive-date=4 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004175232/http://www.geostat.ge/cms/site_images/_files/english/census/2002/03%20Ethnic%20Composition.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|{{Centre|–}}
|-
| Nakhchivan (''Nakhichevan'')
| {{flag|Azerbaijan}} (Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic)
| align="center"| 5,363
| align="center"| 398,323
| align="center"| 6
| align="center"| ~0
| align="center"| 2009 census<ref>{{cite web|title=Regions of Azerbaijan, Nakchivan economic district, Ethnic Structure [Azərbaycanın regionları, Naxçıvan iqtisadi rayonu, Milli tərkib]|url=http://www.azstat.org/region/az/001.shtml|publisher=State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan|access-date=28 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213132849/http://www.azstat.org/region/az/001.shtml|archive-date=13 February 2012 }}</ref>
|
* Armenians of the region ethnically cleansed in early 20th century
* Armenians make up 39.6% of population in 1916 (Nakhichevan ''uezd'')<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.prlib.ru/item/417322 |title=Кавказский календарь на 1917 год |publisher=Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom |year=1917 |edition=72nd |publication-place=Tiflis |pages=214–221 |language=Russian |trans-title=Caucasian calendar for 1917 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104233151/https://www.prlib.ru/item/417322 |archive-date=4 November 2021}}</ref>
|-
| Eastern Turkey (''Western Armenia'')
| {{flag|Turkey}}
| align="center"| 132,967
| align="center"| 6,461,400
| align="center"| 60,000
| align="center"| 0.09
| align="center"| 2009 estimate{{sfn|Papian|2009|p=37}}
|
* Armenians of the region ethnically cleansed with Hamidian massacres, Adana massacre, Armenian genocide and Turkish War of Independence
|}

===Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) ===
[[File:AZ-qa-location-en.svg|upright=1.35|thumb|The territory controlled by the Armenian forces in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic until 2020 shown in brown]]

In the aftermath of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, supported by the Republic of Armenia, took control over the territory of some 11,500&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>,<ref>{{cite web|title=Country Overview|url=http://www.nkrusa.org/country_profile/overview.shtml|publisher=Office of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic in Washington, DC|access-date=26 June 2013}}</ref> including several districts outside of the originally claimed borders of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of the Azerbaijani SSR, creating a "buffer zone".<ref>{{cite news|title=Nagorno-Karabakh profile |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18270325|publisher=BBC News |access-date=12 July 2013}}</ref>{{sfn|Ambrosio|2001|p=149}} Kelbajar and Lachin districts guarantee solid land corridor between Armenia proper and Nagorno-Karabakh.<ref>{{cite book |last=Eichensehr |first=Kristen|title=Stopping wars and making peace: studies in international intervention|year=2009 |publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers|location=Leiden|isbn=978-90-04-17855-7|page=44|author2=Reisman, W. Michael }}</ref>{{sfn|Ambrosio|2001|p=149}} Between 500,000 and 600,000 Azerbaijanis were displaced from the area.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hampton|first=Janie|title=Internally Displaced People: A Global Survey |year=2013|publisher=Routledge |location=London|isbn=978-1-136-54706-5|page=140}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Kambeck|first=Michael|title=Europe's Next Avoidable War: Nagorno-Karabakh|year=2013 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=Basingstoke|isbn=978-0-230-30066-8 |page=150 |author2=Ghazaryan, Sargis}}</ref> In the meantime, almost all Armenians from Azerbaijan (between 300,000 and 400,000)<ref>{{cite book|last=Peimani|first=Hooman|title=Conflict and Security in Central Asia and the Caucasus |year=2008|publisher=ABC-CLIO |location=Santa Barbara, CA|isbn=978-1-59884-054-4|page=242}}</ref>{{sfn|Adalian|2010|p=6}} and Azerbaijanis from Armenia (over 150,000) were forced to move to their respective countries as remaining in their homes became nearly impossible since tensions between the two groups have grown worse since the start of the conflict in 1988.<ref>{{cite book |title=Azerbaijan: Seven Years of Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh |author=Human Rights Watch|year=1994|location=Helsinki|isbn=1-56432-142-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/azerbaijanseveny00huma/page/1 1] |url=https://archive.org/details/azerbaijanseveny00huma}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Internally Displaced People: A Global Survey|year=2002 |publisher=Earthscan|location=London|isbn=978-1-85383-952-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/internallydispla0000unse_b0v3/page/140 140] |author=Global IDP Survey, Flyktningeråd (Norway) |url=https://archive.org/details/internallydispla0000unse_b0v3/page/140}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Jentleson|first=Bruce W.|title=Opportunities Missed, Opportunities Seized: Preventive Diplomacy in the Postdcold War World |year=2000|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|location=Lanham, MD|isbn=978-0-8476-8559-2|page=68}}</ref>

The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic or the Republic of Artsakh remained internationally unrecognized. Until 2023, the Republic of Armenia and Artsakh were ''de facto'' functioning as one entity,<ref name="Hughes 2002 211"/><ref>{{cite news|last1=Mulcaire|first1=Jack|title=Face Off: The Coming War between Armenia and Azerbaijan|url=http://nationalinterest.org/feature/face-the-coming-war-between-armenia-azerbaijan-12585|work=[[Social:The National Interest|The National Interest]]|date=9 April 2015|quote=The mostly Armenian population of the disputed region now lives under the control of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, a micronation that is supported by Armenia and is effectively part of that country.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Armenia expects Russian support in Karabakh war |url=http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pageid=438&n=armenia-expects-russian-support-in-karabakh-war-2011-05-20|access-date=25 June 2013|newspaper=Hürriyet Daily News|date=20 May 2011|quote=While internationally recognized as Azerbaijani territory, the enclave has declared itself an independent republic but is administered as a de facto part of Armenia.}}</ref><ref>Central Asia and The Caucasus, Information and Analytical Center, 2009, Issues 55-60, Page 74, "Nagorno-Karabakh became de facto part of Armenia (its quasi-statehood can dupe no one) as a result of aggression."</ref><ref>Deutsche Gesellschaft für auswärtige Politik, Internationale Politik, Volume 8, 2007 "...&nbsp;and Nagorno-Karabakh, the disputed territory that is now de facto part of Armenia&nbsp;..."</ref>{{sfn|Cornell|2011|p=135|ps=: "Following the war, the territories that fell under Armenian control, in particular Mountainous Karabakh itself, were slowly integrated into Armenia. Officially, Karabakh and Armenia remain separate political entities, but for most practical matters the two entities are unified."}}<ref>{{cite news|last=de Waal|first=Thomas|title=Nagorno-Karabakh: Crimea's doppelganger|url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/thomas-de-waal/nagorno-karabakh-crimea-doppelganger-azerbaijan-armenia|agency=openDemocracy|date=13 June 2016|quote=Following the Armenian victory in that conflict, confirmed by the 1994 ceasefire, Armenia has since carried out a de facto annexation of Karabakh.|access-date=3 August 2016|archive-date=9 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409082305/https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/thomas-de-waal/nagorno-karabakh-crimea-doppelganger-azerbaijan-armenia|url-status=dead}}</ref> although the Nagorno-Karabakh region was internationally recognized as ''de jure'' part of [[Place:Azerbaijan|Azerbaijan]]. Nagorno-Karabakh was more [[Social:Monoethnicity|monoethnic]] than the Republic of Armenia, with 99.7% of its population being Armenian. The Azerbaijani minority was forced to leave during the war. The areas outside the original NKAO borders taken over by the Armenian forces during the war are mostly uninhabited or very sparsely inhabited, with the city of Lachin being an exception. Between 2000 and 2011, 25,000 to 30,000 people settled in NKR.<ref>{{cite news|script-title=hy:Արցախի ազատագրված տարածքներում մինչև 2011-ը վերաբնակեցվել է 20-30 հազար մարդ|url=http://www.panarmenian.net/arm/news/122038/|access-date=30 July 2013|newspaper=PanARMENIAN.Net|date=7 September 2012|language=hy}}</ref>

The 2023 Azerbaijani offensive into Nagorno-Karabakh ended with the defeat and collapse of Artsakh, which is scheduled to formally dissolve on 1 January 2024. It also resulted in the mass flight of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians into Armenia. These developments appear to have effectively ended the "United Armenia" aspirations with regards to Nagorno-Karabakh.

=== Javakheti (Javakhk) ===
[[File:Akhalkalaki and Ninotsminda districts.png|thumb|upright=1.35|Javakhk (Javakheti) shown in red on the map of Georgia with Samtskhe-Javakheti provincial borders outlined.<br>Abkhazia and South Ossetia, both areas are not under the control of the central government of Georgia,<ref>{{cite web |title=Georgia Country Specific Information |publisher=Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S. Department of State |url=https://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1122.html |access-date=13 August 2013 |archive-date=4 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130904022847/http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1122.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> shown in light grey.]]

The region of Javakheti or Javakhk as known to Armenians comprises the districts of Akhalkalaki and Ninotsminda, both part of Samtskhe-Javakheti region of [[Place:Georgia (country)|Georgia]].<ref>{{cite book|title=European Yearbook of Minority Issues, Volume 3|year=2005|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers|location=Leiden, Netherlands|isbn=978-90-04-14280-0|page=310|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7dH0qS_tQS0C|author=European Centre for Minority Issues|author-link=European Centre for Minority Issues}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Nodia|first=Ghia|title=The Political Landscape of Georgia: Political Parties: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects|year=2006|publisher=Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.|location=Delft|isbn=978-90-5972-113-5|page=66|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vBMrVV4C1e0C|author2=Scholtbach, Álvaro Pinto }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Ishkhanyan|first=Vahan|title=Javakhk: The "Third" Armenia|url=http://agbu.org/news-item/javakhk-the-third-armenia/|access-date=25 July 2013|date=1 November 2004|agency=Armenian General Benevolent Union|archive-date=2 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002141407/http://agbu.org/news-item/javakhk-the-third-armenia/|url-status=dead}}</ref> It is overwhelmingly Armenian-populated (around 95%).{{sfn|Cornell|2001|p=167}} The area is geographically isolated from the rest of Georgia and remains economically and socially isolated from Georgia.{{sfn|Cornell|2002|p=199}} According to Svante Cornell, Javakhk enjoys "wide cultural autonomy" and "certain Georgian analysts observe that the region is in practice as much 'Armenia' as 'Georgia'. It is distinctively easier to get around using Armenian than Georgian in this region; indeed, foreign visitors claim that at first they had difficulties determining which country they are in."{{sfn|Cornell|2001|p=167}} Generally, Javakheti Armenians live in "reasonable inter-ethnic harmony" within Georgia, although there is a "fairly strong fear for the future, a sense of insecurity."{{sfn|Cornell|2001|p=167}} Javakheti, along with Lori and Borchali, was disputed by Armenia and Georgia from 1918 to 1920. A brief armed conflict took place between the two nations in December 1918, mostly over Lori.{{sfn|Cornell|2002|p=198}}

United Javakhk Democratic Alliance, a local civil organization, is the main organization advocating for an Armenian autonomy in the region.{{sfn|Harutyunyan|2009|p=204}} It was founded in 1988, during the disintegration of the Soviet Union.{{sfn|Cornell|2002|p=164}} It campaigns for a referendum in Javakheti on autonomy.<ref name="Peimani">{{cite book|last=Peimani|first=Hooman|title=Conflict and Security in Central Asia and the Caucasus|year=2008 |publisher=ABC-CLIO|location=Santa Barbara, CA|isbn=978-1-59884-054-4|pages=270–271}}</ref>{{sfn|Cornell|2001|p=168}} It is believed that the organization has close links with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.{{sfn|Cornell|2001|p=168}}<ref name="Peimani"/> Although the ARF claims Javakhk as part of United Armenia, the ARF World Congresses "have agreed with the demands raised by the Armenians of Javakhk that a Javakhk with a high degree of self-government within a federal Georgia would be able to sustain itself and would become a strong link in Georgian-Armenian relations."<ref>{{cite web|title=Foreign Policy & Strategy|url=http://www.arfd.info/arf-d-foreign-policy-strategy/|publisher=Armenian Revolutionary Federation – Dashnaktsutyun|access-date=12 July 2013|archive-date=2 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100702200158/http://www.arfd.info/arf-d-foreign-policy-strategy/|url-status=dead}}</ref> ARF Bureau Chairman Hrant Markarian declared in the 2004 party congress: "We want a strong, stable and autonomous Javakheti that is part of Georgia and enjoys state care."<ref name="Zakarian"/> The leader of the United Javakhk Democratic Alliance, Vahagn Chakhalian, was arrested in 2008 and freed in 2013. A 2014 article suggested that the alliance has little influence today.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Rimple|first1=Paul|last2=Mielnikiewicz|first2=Justyna|title=Post-Crimea, Phantom of Armenian Separatism Haunts Georgia|url=http://www.eurasianet.org/node/68253|work=eurasianet.org|publisher=Open Society Institute|date=9 April 2014}}</ref>

During Zviad Gamsakhurdia's presidency (1991), Javakheti remained ''de facto'' semi-independent and only in November 1991 was the Tbilisi-appointed governor able to take power.{{efn|"The area remained effectively outside the control of Tbilisi for virtually the entire tenure of Gamsakhurdia."{{sfn|Cornell|2002|p=164}} }} The issue of Javakheti was in the 1990s "clearly been perceived as the most dangerous potential ethnic conflict in Georgia", however, no actual armed conflict ever occurred.{{sfn|Cornell|2002|p=196}} Taking into account the importance of the bilateral relations, the governments of Armenia and Georgia have pursued a careful and calming policy to avoid tension.{{sfn|Cornell|2002|p=107|ps=: "The Georgian government has been very careful not to provoke the Javakhetia Armenians; meanwhile, the Armenian government, mindful of the importance of its relations with Georgia, has been careful to defuse potential problems in the region, intervening once to talk Javakhk out of plans to hold a referendum on autonomy or secession."}} The Armenian government has not made territorial claims to Georgia, nor has called for an autonomy in Javakheti.{{sfn|Cornell|2002|p=172|ps=: "Armenian Diaspora groups in Russia and the United States have recently began raising the question of Javakheti's status, although no overt support for the demands to grant it autonomy have been voiced by the Armenian government."}} Armenia–Georgia relations have traditionally been friendly,<ref>{{cite news |title=Armenia interested in stability in Georgia and wants to strengthen friendly relations with it |url=http://arka.am/en/news/politics/armenia_interested_in_stability_in_georgia_and_wants_to_strengthen_friendly_relations_with_it/|access-date=30 June 2013|newspaper=ARKA|date=17 January 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |agency=Civil Georgia|title=PM Ivanishvili: 'There are No Problems in Ties with Armenia' |url=http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=25650|access-date=30 June 2013|date=17 January 2013}}</ref> however, from time to time tensions arise between the two countries. In recent years, the status of Armenian churches in Georgia<ref>{{cite news |title=Armenian, Georgian Churches Fail To Settle Disputes |url=http://www.rferl.org/content/armenia_georgian_churches_fail_to_settle_disputes/24238571.html|access-date=30 June 2013|date=17 June 2011|agency=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Abrahamyan |first=Gayane|title=Armenia: Property Disputes Fueling Church Tension between Yerevan and Tbilisi|url=http://www.eurasianet.org/node/64025|access-date=30 June 2013|newspaper=Eurasianet.org|date=10 August 2011}}</ref> and the status of the Armenian language in Georgian public schools had been a matter of dispute.<ref>{{cite news|title=Will Armenian language obtain regional status?|url=http://www.georgiatimes.info/en/analysis/88092.html|access-date=30 June 2013|newspaper=Georgia Times|date=19 March 2013|archive-date=14 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150714212858/http://www.georgiatimes.info/en/analysis/88092.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Svante Cornell argues that "Armenia seems to have had a calming influence on Javakhk" as it is highly dependent on Georgia for imports.{{sfn|Cornell|2001|p=168}} This viewpoint is shared by Georgian analysts.<ref>{{cite web|last=Barnovi |first=Andro|title=Detailed Review on Samtskhe-Javakheti |url=https://archive.org/details/JavakhetiStudy |publisher=Institute for Strategy and Development|access-date=3 July 2013|location=Tbilisi|year=2009}}</ref>

Armenian nationalist activist Alexander Yenikomshian has suggested that there are three long-term solutions to the Javakhk issue: 1) the region remains part of a Georgia, where the rights of the Armenian population are protected 2) "Artsakhization", i.e. ''de facto'' unification with the Republic of Armenia 3) "Nakhichevanization", i.e. Javakhk loses its Armenian population.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ի՞նչ է Ջավախքի նշանակությունը հայ ժողովրդի ու Հայաստանի համար|url=http://www.7or.am/am/news/view/1210/|work=7or.am|date=25 December 2010|language=hy}}</ref>

=== Eastern Turkey (Western Armenia) ===
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[[Social:Western Armenia|Western Armenia]] refers to an undefined area, now in eastern Turkey, that had significant Armenian population prior to the Armenian genocide of 1915.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wallimann|first=Isidor Wallimann |title=Genocide and the Modern Age: Etiology and Case Studies of Mass Death|year=2000 |publisher=Syracuse University Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-8156-2828-6|page=216|author2=Dobkowski, Michael N. |quote=The absence of Armenian life in Western Armenia (now Eastern Turkey), the success of the genocide&nbsp;...}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Khanam|first=R.|title=Encyclopedic Ethnography of Middle-East And Central Asia|year=2005|publisher=Global Vision|location=New Delhi |isbn=978-81-8220-062-3|page=53}}</ref> As a result of the genocide, officially no Armenians live in the area today.<ref>Foreign Broadcast Information Service, ''Near East/South Asia Report'', Issue 84004, p. 16 "These organizations demand the secession of former Armenian territories in eastern Turkey. Since officially no Armenians live on those lands today&nbsp;..."</ref> However, at least two distinct groups of Armenian origin reside in the area. Hemshin peoples, an islamisized group with Armenian ethnic origin,<ref>{{cite journal|last=Vaux |first=Bert|title=Hemshinli: The Forgotten Black Sea Armenians|citeseerx=10.1.1.18.1893|journal=CiteSeer |author-link=Bert Vaux}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Pelkmans|first=Mathijs|title=Defending the Border: Identity, Religion, And Modernity in the Republic of Georgia|year=2006|publisher=Cornell University Press|location=Ithaca, New York|isbn=978-0-8014-7330-2|page=34}}</ref> live in the Black Sea coast, particularity in the Rize province.<ref>Peter Alford Andrews, ''Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey''. Wiesbaden, Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 1989, pp.&nbsp;476–477, 483-485, 491</ref> Another group, "Hidden Armenians", live throughout Turkey, especially the eastern parts of the country. Many of them have been assimilated by Kurds. It is impossible to determine how many there are due to the fact that they keep their identity hidden, but estimates range from below 100,000 to millions.<ref>{{cite news|title=More than half of 4–5 million Islamized Armenians confess that their ancestors have been Armenian|url=http://www.armradio.info/?part=1&id=179965|access-date=10 November 2013 |date=5 November 2013|agency=Public Radio of Armenia}}</ref> Since the Armenian Genocide, the area has been mostly settled by Kurds and Turks,<ref>{{cite book|last=Masih|first=Joseph R. |title=Armenia: At the Crossroads|year=1999|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=978-90-5702-344-6 |page=xxvi|author2=Krikorian, Robert O. }}</ref> with smaller numbers of Azerbaijanis (near the Turkish-Armenian border)<ref>{{cite book|last=Shaffer|first=Brenda|title=Borders and Brethren: Iran and the Challenge of Azerbaijani Identity|year=2002|publisher=MIT Press|location=Cambridge, MA|isbn=978-0-262-26468-6 |page=221}}</ref> and Georgians and Laz people in the northeastern provinces of Turkey.<ref>{{cite book|title=Turkey: A Country Study|year=2004|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|location=Whitefish, MT |isbn=978-1-4191-9126-8 |page=142|author=Federal Research Division|author-link=Federal Research Division}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Stokes|first=Jamie |title=Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East|year=2009|publisher=Infobashe Publishing|location=New York|isbn=978-1-4381-2676-0|page=141}}</ref>

Generally, the Armenian nationalist groups claim the area east of the boundary drawn by US President [[Biography:Woodrow Wilson|Woodrow Wilson]] for the Treaty of Sèvres in 1920. The Armenian Revolutionary Federation and groups supporting the concept of United Armenia claim that the Treaty of Sèvres, signed on 10 August 1920 between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies, including Armenia is the only legal document determining the border between Armenia and Turkey.<ref>{{cite web|title=Թուրքիան եւ ԱՄՆ-ը պետք է ընդունեն Սեւրի Դաշնագիրը [Turkey and the United States Should Recognize the Treaty of Sevres]|url=http://www.arfd.info/hy/?p=2006|publisher=Armenian Revolutionary Federation Website|access-date=29 July 2013|date=22 November 2010|language=hy|archive-date=29 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180829225446/http://www.arfd.info/hy/?p=2006|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Armenia, Turkey Border was Determined by 1920 Sevres Treaty, Says Manoyan |url=http://asbarez.com/56398/armenia-turkey-border-was-determined-by-1920-sevres-treaty-says-manoyan/ |access-date=29 July 2013|newspaper=Asbarez |date=19 December 2007}}</ref><ref name="Aghvan Hovsepyan"/> Armenia's Former Deputy Foreign Minister Ara Papian claims that "Wilsonian Armenia," the territory granted to the Republic of Armenia in 1920 by Wilson in the scope of the Treaty of Sèvres, is still ''de jure'' part of Armenia today.<ref>{{cite web |last=Papian|first=Ara|title=Sound the Alarms! This is Our FInal Sardarapat|url=http://www.wilsonforarmenia.org/Articles/SardEng.pdf |access-date=29 July 2013|language=hy}}{{verify source|date=March 2021}}</ref> According to him the Treaty of Kars, which determined the current Turkish-Armenian border, has no legal value because it was signed between two internationally unrecognized subjects: Bolshevik Russia and Kemalist Turkey.{{sfn|Papian|2009|p=150}} Papian has suggested that the Armenian government can file a suit at the International Court of Justice to dispute the border between Armenia and Turkey.<ref name="Aghvan Hovsepyan"/>

22 November is celebrated by some Armenians as the anniversary of the Arbitral Award.<ref>{{cite news|title=Նոյեմբերի 22-ը Հայրենատիրության օր|url=http://www.a1plus.am/am/politics/2007/11/16/21337|access-date=28 June 2013|date=16 November 2007|agency=A1plus}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Կոչ են անում նոյեմբերի 22-ը հռչակել Հայրենատիրության օր|url=http://hetq.am/arm/print/7043/|access-date=28 June 2013|newspaper=Hetq|date=22 November 2011|archive-date=13 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413123847/http://hetq.am/arm/print/7043/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2010 and 2011, posters with maps of the Treaty of Sèvres were hung throughout [[Place:Yerevan|Yerevan]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Öztarsu|first=Mehmet Fatih|title=Armenia ready, target 2015|url=http://www.todayszaman.com/news-251131-armenia-ready-target-2015-by-mehmet-fatih-oztarsu*.html|access-date=5 July 2013|newspaper=Today's Zaman|date=20 July 2011|archive-date=7 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131107103606/http://www.todayszaman.com/news-251131-armenia-ready-target-2015-by-mehmet-fatih-oztarsu%2A.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On 10 August 2020 the three traditional Armenian parties—the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF, Dashnaks), Social Democrat Hunchakian Party (Hunchaks) and the Armenian Democratic Liberal Party (Ramgavars)—issued a joint statement on the centenary of the Sèvres Treaty, stating that the treaty is the only international document defining the border between Armenia and Turkey. "The Treaty of Sevres is a valid international treaty, although it has not been ratified by all signatories, but it has not been legally replaced by any other international instrument. At least from the point of view of the rights of the Armenian Cause, the Republic of Armenia and the Armenian nation, it remains a promissory note based on international law."<ref>{{cite web |title=Սեւրի Դաշնագրի 100-ամեակին առիթով Ս.Դ.Հ.Կ.-Հ.Յ.Դ.-Ռ.Ա.Կ. միացեալ յայտարարութիւն |url=https://ancnews.info/?p=17441 |website=ancnews.info |date = 10 August 2020|publisher=Armenian National Committee |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210113082002/https://ancnews.info/?p=17441 |archive-date=13 January 2021 |language=hy}}</ref>

==== Official position of Armenia ====
Since [[Place:Armenia|Armenia]]'s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the Armenian government has not officially made any territorial claims to Turkey.{{sfn|Phillips|2005|p=68}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Terzi|first=Özlem|title=The influence of the European Union on Turkish foreign policy|year=2010|publisher=Ashgate|location=Farnham, Surrey, England|isbn=978-0-7546-7842-7|page=88}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Hayrumyan|first=Naira|title=Border matters: Possible emergence of independent Kurdistan in Mideast expected to have bearing on Armenia|url=http://www.armenianow.com/commentary/analysis/42503/armenia_middle_east_region_kurdish_issue_geopolitics|access-date=21 January 2013|date=14 January 2013|agency=ArmeniaNow|archive-date=20 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180920122516/https://www.armenianow.com/commentary/analysis/42503/armenia_middle_east_region_kurdish_issue_geopolitics|url-status=dead}}</ref> However, the Armenian government has avoided "an explicit and formal recognition of the existing Turkish-Armenian border."<ref name="RFE/RL">{{cite news|last=Danielyan|first=Emil |title=Erdogan Demands Apology From Armenia|url=http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/24280096.html|access-date=29 June 2013|date=28 July 2011|agency=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty}}</ref> In 2001, Armenian president Robert Kocharyan stated that the "genocide recognition will not lead to legal consequences or territorial claims."{{sfn|Phillips|2005|p=36}}

In 2010, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan addressed the Conference Dedicated to the 90th Anniversary of Woodrow Wilson's Arbitral Award:
{{cquote|It was probably one of the most momentous events for our nation in the 20th century which was called up to reestablish historic justice and eliminate consequences of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated in the Ottoman Empire. The Arbitral Award defined and recognized internationally Armenia's borders within which the Armenian people, who had gone through hell of ''Mets Eghern'', were to build their statehood.<ref>{{cite news |title=Address of President Serzh Sargsyan to the Conference Dedicated to the 90th Anniversary of Woodrow Wilson's Arbitral Award|url=http://www.president.am/en/press-release/item/2010/11/23/news-1316/|access-date=27 June 2013 |date=23 November 2010|agency=Office to the President of the Republic of Armenia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413132437/http://www.president.am/en/press-release/item/2010/11/23/news-1316/|archive-date=13 April 2014 }}</ref>}}

On 23 July 2011, during a meeting of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan with students in Tsaghkadzor resort city, a student asked Sargsyan if Turkey "will return Western Armenia" in the future.<ref name="RFE/RL"/> Sargsyan responded: 
{{cquote|It depends on you and your generation. I believe, my generation has fulfilled the task in front of us; when it was necessary in the beginning of the 1990s to defend part of our fatherland—Karabakh—from the enemy, we did it. I am not telling this to embarrass anyone: my point is that each generation has its responsibilities and they have to be carried out, with honor. If you, boys and girls of your generation spare no effort, if those older and younger than you act the same way, we will have one of the best countries in the world. Trust me, in many cases the country's standing is not conditioned by its territory: the country should be modern, it should be secure and prosperous, and these are conditions which allow any nation to sit next to the respectable, powerful and reputed nations of the world. We simply must fulfill our duty, must be active, industrious, must be able to create bounty. And we can do that, we very easily can do that, and we have done it more than once in our history. I am certain about it, and I want you to be certain too. We are a nation that always rises from the ashes like phoenix—again and again.<ref>{{cite news|title=In Tsakhkadzor President Sargsyan met with the participants of the 5th Pan-Armenian Olympiad and with the students sponsored by the Luys Foundation|url=http://www.president.am/en/domestic-visits/item/2011/07/25/news-290/&|access-date=29 June 2013|date=25 July 2011|agency=Office to the President of the Republic of Armenia}}</ref>}}

Sargsyan's statements "were considered by Turkish officials an encouragement for young students to fulfill the task of their generation and occupy eastern Turkey."<ref name="Zaman"/> During his visit to Baku a few days later, Turkish Prime Minister [[Biography:Recep Tayyip Erdoğan|Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]] denounced Sargsyan's statements and described them as "provocation" and claimed that Sargsyan this "told young Armenians to be ready for a future war with Turkey."<ref name="RFE/RL"/> Erdoğan demanded apology from Sargsyan calling his statements a "blunder".<ref>{{cite news|title=Erdogan Demands Apology From Armenia|url=http://www.mirrorspectator.com/2011/08/04/erdogan-demands-apology-from-armenia/|access-date=29 June 2013|newspaper=Armenian Mirror-Spectator|date=4 August 2011}}</ref> In response, Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan stated that Sargsyan's words were "interpreted out of context."<ref name="Zaman">{{cite news|title=Yerevan claims Sarksyan's words 'misinterpreted'|url=http://www.todayszaman.com/news-251995-yerevan-claims-sarksyans-words-misinterpreted.html|access-date=29 June 2013|newspaper=Today's Zaman|date=28 July 2011|archive-date=5 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105172910/http://www.todayszaman.com/news-251995-yerevan-claims-sarksyans-words-misinterpreted.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On 5 July 2013,<ref name="Hovsepyan Land Claim">{{cite news|title=Turkey Angry at Yerevan Over 'Land Claim' Remarks|url=http://asbarez.com/111487/turkey-angry-at-yerevan-over-%E2%80%98land-claim%E2%80%99-remarks/|access-date=15 July 2013|newspaper=Asbarez|date=15 July 2013|archive-date=19 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130719070443/http://asbarez.com/111487/turkey-angry-at-yerevan-over-%E2%80%98land-claim%E2%80%99-remarks/|url-status=dead}}</ref> during a forum of Armenian lawyers in Yerevan on the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide organized by the Ministry of Diaspora, Armenia's Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan made a "sensational statement".<ref name="Aghvan Hovsepyan"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Prosecutor General: Armenia Should Have Its Territories Back|url=http://asbarez.com/111143/prosecutor-general-armenia-should-have-its-territories-back/|access-date=11 July 2013|newspaper=Asbarez|date=8 July 2013}}</ref> Hovsepyan particularly stated:
{{cquote|Indeed, the Republic of Armenia should have its lost territories returned and the victims of the Armenian Genocide should receive material compensation. But all these claims must have perfect legal grounds. I strongly believe that the descendants of the genocide must receive material compensation, churches miraculously preserved in Turkey's territory and church lands must be returned to the Armenian Church, and the Republic of Armenia must get back its lost lands.<ref name="Hovsepyan Land Claim"/><!-- «Հայոց ցեղասպանության զոհերի ժառանգները պետք է նյութական փոխհատուցում ստանան, Հայ եկեղեցուն պետք է վերադարձվեն Թուրքիայի տարածքում հրաշքով կանգուն մնացած եկեղեցիները և եկեղեցապատկան հողերը, Հայաստանի Հանրապետությունը պետք է ստանա իր կորցրած տարածքները։ Բայց այդ բոլոր պահանջները պետք է ունենան անթերի իրավական հիմնավորումներ»,–հայտարարել է ՀՀ գլխավոր դատախազը։ -->}}
According to ''ArmeniaNow'' news agency "this was seen as the first territorial claim of Armenia to Turkey made on an official level. The prosecutor general is the carrier of the highest legal authority in the country, and his statement is equivalent to an official statement."<ref name="Aghvan Hovsepyan">{{cite news|last=Hayrumyan|first=Naira|title=Armenia and Year 2015: From Genocide recognition demand to demand for eliminating its consequences|url=http://armenianow.com/genocide/47534/armenia_turkey_genocide_recognition_aghvan_hovsepyan|access-date=11 July 2013|date=11 July 2013|agency=ArmeniaNow|archive-date=15 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130715143327/http://armenianow.com/genocide/47534/armenia_turkey_genocide_recognition_aghvan_hovsepyan|url-status=dead}}</ref> In response, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement on 12 July 2013 denouncing Hovsepyan's statements. According to the Turkish side his statements reflect the "prevailing problematic mentality in Armenia as to the territorial integrity of its neighbor Turkey." The statement said that "one should be well aware that no one can presume to claim land from Turkey."<ref>{{cite web|title=QA-18, 12 July 2013, Statement of the Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey in Response to a Question Regarding the Declaration of the Prosecutor General of Armenia about the Border between Turkey and Armenia|url=http://www.mfa.gov.tr/qa_18_-12-july-2013_-statement-of-the-spokesman-of-the-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-of-turkey-in-response-to-a-question-regarding-the-declaration-of-the-prosecutor-general-of-armenia-about-the-border-between-turkey-and-armenia.en.mfa|publisher=Republic of Turkey Ministry of Foreign Affairs|access-date=14 July 2013}}</ref>

On 10 August 2020 Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, President Armen Sarkissian and parliament speaker Ararat Mirzoyan issued statements on the centenary of the Sèvres Treaty. Pashinyan noted that although it was never implemented, "it continues to be a historical fact, which reflects our long journey to restore our independent statehood. We are bound by duty to remember it, realize its importance and follow its message."<ref>{{cite web |title=PM Nikol Pashinyan addresses the conference on 100 years of signing of Treaty of Sevres |url=https://www.primeminister.am/en/statements-and-messages/item/2020/08/10/Nikol-Pashinyan-message/ |website=primeminister.am |publisher=The Office to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225190240/https://www.primeminister.am/en/statements-and-messages/item/2020/08/10/Nikol-Pashinyan-message/ |archive-date=25 February 2021 |date=10 August 2020}}</ref> Sarkissian stated that the treaty "even today remains an essential document for the right of the Armenian people to achieve a fair resolution of the Armenian issue."<ref>{{cite web |title=President Armen Sarkissian: "The Treaty of Sèvres even today remains an essential document for the right of the Armenian people to achieve a fair resolution of the Armenian issue" |url=https://www.president.am/en/press-release/item/2020/08/10/President-Armen-Sarkissians-interview/ |website=president.am |publisher=The Office to the President of the Republic of Armenia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725080601/https://www.president.am/en/press-release/item/2020/08/10/President-Armen-Sarkissians-interview/ |archive-date=25 July 2021 |date=10 August 2020}}</ref> Mirzoyan called the treaty an expression of "dreamy naivety."<ref>{{cite news |title=Դառնահամը չի անցնում, Կարսում ու Իգդիրում հայկական դրոշը չի ծածանվում․ Արարատ Միրզոյանը՝ Սևրի պայմանագրի մասին |url=https://a1plus.am/hy/article/376164 |agency=A1plus |date=10 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725080903/https://a1plus.am/hy/article/376164 |archive-date=25 July 2021 |language=hy}}</ref>

===Nakhchivan===
[[File:Nakhichevan and Artsakh in Azerbaijan location map.png|thumb|upright=1.35|Nakhichevan shown in brown. The area formerly held by the dissolved Nagorno-Karabakh Republic until 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war and 2023 offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh shown in yellow and red respectively. ]]
Armenian tradition says that Nakhichevan (Նախիջևան ''Naxidjevan'' in Armenian and Naxçıvan in Azerbaijani) was founded by Noah.<ref>{{cite book|last=Coene|first=Frederik|title=The Caucasus: an introduction |year=2009|publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-48660-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FqFMmVbfRfEC&q=Nakhchivan+Noah&pg=PA35|page=35}}</ref> Armenians have been living in Nakhichevan since ancient times. It was one of ''gavars'' of [[Place:Vaspurakan|Vaspurakan]] province of the [[History:Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity)|Kingdom of Armenia]]. In 189 BC, Nakhchivan became part of the new [[History:Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity)|Kingdom of Armenia]] established by Artaxias I.<ref name="Monuments">Ayvazyan, Argam. ''The Historical Monuments of Nakhichevan'', pp.&nbsp;10–12. {{ISBN|0-8143-1896-7}}</ref> Within the kingdom, the region of present-day Nakhichevan was part of the Ayrarat, [[Place:Vaspurakan|Vaspurakan]] and Syunik provinces.{{sfn|Hewsen|2001|p=100}}

By the 16th century, control of Nakhichevan passed to the Safavid dynasty of Persia. Because of its geographic position, it frequently suffered during the earlier wars between Persia and the [[Place:Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Empire]] in the 14th to 18th centuries. In 1604–1605, Shah Abbas I, concerned that the lands of Nakhichevan and the surrounding areas could potentially pass into Ottoman hands, decided to institute a [[Social:Scorched earth|scorched earth]] policy. He forced some 300,000 Armenians,<ref>{{cite book|title=The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From The Eighteenth Century To Modern Times|year=2005|publisher=Wayne State Univ Press|location=Detroit |isbn=978-0-8143-3221-4|pages=4–5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GmtPLvnrc38C|author1=Agop Jack Hacikyan |author2=Gabriel Basmajian |author3=Edward S. Franchuk |author4=Nourhan Ouzounian }}</ref> including the Armenian population of Nakhichevan to leave their homes and move to the Persian provinces south of the Aras River.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gervers|first=Michael|title=Conversion and Continuity: Indigenous Christian Communities in Islamic Lands Eighth to Eighteenth Centuries|year=1990|publisher=Pontifical Inst. of Mediaeval Studies|location=Toronto|isbn=978-0-88844-809-5|page=230|author2=Bikhazi, Ramzi Jibran }}</ref> After the last 1826-1828 Russo-Persian War, Nakhichevan became part of Russia per the Treaty of Turkmenchay after Persia's forced ceding. Alexandr Griboyedov, the Russian envoy to Persia, reported that 1,228 Armenian families from Persia migrated to Nakhichevan, while prior to their migration there were 2,024 Muslim and 404 Armenian families living in the province.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ru:Письмо Паскевичу И. Ф., 1 октября 1828 – Грибоедов А.С. |language=ru |url=http://www.griboedov.net/pisma/150.shtml|access-date=30 July 2013|date=1 October 1828}}</ref>

According to the 1897 Russian Empire Census, the Nakhichevan ''uyezd'' of the Erivan Governorate had a population of 100,771, of which 34,672 were Armenian (34.4%), while Caucasian Tatars (Azerbaijanis) numbered 64,151 or 63.7% of the total population.<ref>{{cite web|title=All-Russian census of 1897 Nakhichevan uyezd ethnic composition|url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/emp_lan_97_uezd.php?reg=575|publisher=Demoscope Weekly|access-date=29 June 2013|language=ru}}</ref> The proportion of Armenian was around 40% prior to World War I.<ref name="Starr">{{cite book|last=Starr|first=S. Frederick|title=The Legacy of History in Russia and the New States of Eurasia|year=1994 |publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=978-0-7656-1398-1|pages=247–248|author-link=S. Frederick Starr}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Miller|first=Donald Earl|title=Armenia: Portraits of Survival and Hope|year=2003 |publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley, CA|isbn=978-0-520-92914-2|page=7|author2=Miller, Lorna Touryan }}</ref> Nakhichevan was disputed between Armenia and Azerbaijan from 1918 to 1920 during the countries' brief independence. The Armenian population of Nakhichevan largely fled the area during the Ottoman invasion in 1918.{{sfn|Hovannisian|1971|p=229}} By June 1919, after the British troops left the area, [[Place:First Republic of Armenia|Armenia]] succeeded in establishing control over Nakhichevan. Some of the Nakhichevan Armenians returned to their homes in summer 1919.{{sfn|Hovannisian|1971|p=247}} Again, more violence erupted in 1919 leaving some 10,000 Armenians dead and some 45 Armenian villages destroyed.{{sfn|Hewsen|2001|p=266}}

After the Soviet takeover of the Caucasus region in 1920 and 1921, the Treaty of Moscow, also known as the Treaty of Brotherhood, was signed between the Government of the Grand National Assembly and Soviet Russia on 16 March 1921. According to this treaty Nakhichevan became "an autonomous territory under the auspices of Azerbaijan, under the condition that Azerbaijan will not relinquish the protectorate to any third party."<ref>{{cite web|title=Treaty of Moscow: March 16, 1921|url=http://www.deutscharmenischegesellschaft.de/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Vertrag-von-Moskau-16.-M%C3%A4rz-1921.pdf|publisher=Deutsch-Armenische Gesellschaft (DAG)|access-date=12 July 2013}}</ref> The Treaty of Kars was signed between the Grand National Assembly and Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR on 13 October 1921. The treaty reaffirmed that the "Turkish Government and the Soviet Governments of Armenia and Azerbaijan are agreed that the region of Nakhichevan&nbsp;... constitutes an autonomous territory under the protection of Azerbaijan."<ref>{{cite web|title=Treaty of Kars|url=http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/eBooks/Articles/1921Treaty%20of%20Kars.pdf|publisher=Armenian News Network / Groong|access-date=12 July 2013|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023031/http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/eBooks/Articles/1921Treaty%20of%20Kars.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> By the mid-1920s, the number of Armenians in Nakhichevan dwindled significantly and according to the 1926 Soviet census the 11,276 Armenians made up only 10.7% of the autonomous republic.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic 1926|url=http://www.ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru/naxichevan26.html|publisher=1926 Soviet Census|access-date=26 July 2013}}</ref> During the Soviet period, the Armenians of Nakhichevan felt "pressured to leave."<ref name="Starr"/> According to the Soviet census of 1979, only 3,406 Armenians resided in Nakhichevan or 1.4% of the total population.<ref>{{cite web|title=Azerbaijan SSR|url=http://www.ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru/rnazerbaijan.html|publisher=1979 Soviet Census|access-date=26 July 2013}}</ref> The last few thousand Armenians left Nakhichevan in 1988 amid the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.{{sfn|Libaridian|2007|p=310}}

In August 1987, the [[Organization:Armenian National Academy of Sciences|Armenian National Academy of Sciences]] started a petition to transfer Nakhichevan and Nagorno-Karabakh under jurisdiction of Armenia.{{sfn|Cornell|2011|p=48}} In the nationalist movement to unite Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia, Armenians "used the example of the slow "de-Armenianization" of Nakhichevan in the course of the twentieth century as an example of what they feared would happen to them."{{sfn|de Waal|2003|p=133}}<ref name="Starr"/> During the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, clashes occurred between Armenian and Azeri forces in the Nakhichevan-Armenia border, however, the war did not spill over into Nakhichevan. Turkey, Azerbaijan's close ally, threatened to intervene if Armenia invaded Nakhichevan.{{sfn|de Waal|2003|p=203}}<ref>{{cite news|last=Pope|first=Hugh|title=Turkey 'must show its teeth' to Armenia: Military help for Azerbaijan urged|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/turkey-must-show-its-teeth-to-armenia-military-help-for-azerbaijan-urged-1453934.html|access-date=26 July 2013|newspaper=The Independent|location=London|date=7 April 1993}}</ref> Nakhichevan was in center of attention during the destruction of the Armenian cemetery in Julfa in the 2000s.<ref>{{cite news|title=Azerbaijan: Famous Medieval Cemetery Vanishes|url=http://iwpr.net/report-news/azerbaijan-famous-medieval-cemetery-vanishes|access-date=29 July 2013|date=27 April 2006|agency=Institute for War and Peace Reporting|archive-date=17 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140217145307/http://iwpr.net/report-news/azerbaijan-famous-medieval-cemetery-vanishes|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=High-Resolution Satellite Imagery and the Destruction of Cultural Artifacts in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan|url=http://shr.aaas.org/geotech/azerbaijan/Azerbaijan_Report.pdf|access-date=29 July 2013|date=5 December 2010|agency=American Association for the Advancement of Science}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Sarah Pickman|title=Tragedy on the Araxes|url=http://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/djulfa/index.html|access-date=29 July 2013|newspaper=Archaeology|date=30 June 2006}}</ref> According to the Research on Armenian Architecture, most of the Armenian churches, monasteries and cemeteries were destroyed by Azerbaijan in the 1990s.<ref>{{cite news|last=Gevorgyan|first=Alisa|title=How the Armenian trace was erased from Nakhijevan|url=http://www.armradio.am/en/2012/11/13/how-the-armenian-trace-was-erased-from-nakhijevan/|access-date=28 July 2013|date=13 November 2012|agency=Public Radio of Armenia}}</ref>

The Armenian government has never made any claims to Nakhichevan, although there have been calls by nationalist circles (including Hayazn,<ref>{{cite news|script-title=hy:"Հայազն" կուսակցությունը դատապարտում է ԼՂՀ ԱԳ նախարարի հայտարարությունները|url=http://www.aravot.am/2013/06/20/257003/|access-date=26 July 2013|newspaper=Aravot|date=20 June 2013|language=hy|quote=Հավանական պատերազմի դեպքում Ադրբեջանին բռնակցված մյուս շրջանների' մասնավորապես Գանձակի և Նախիջևանի ազատագրում և պաշտպանական հայեցակարգի համապատասխանեցում այդ նպատակներին:}}</ref> Heritage youth wing<ref>{{cite news|title=Խոստանում են ազատագրել Նախիջեւանը [Promise to liberate Nakhichevan]|url=http://www.a1plus.am/34921.html|date=27 November 2009|agency=A1plus|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611145719/http://www.a1plus.am/34921.html|archive-date=11 June 2014|language=hy}}</ref> and prominent First Nagorno-Karabakh War veteran Jirair Sefilian)<ref>{{cite news|title=The next must be Nakhijevan|url=http://www.azg.am/wap/?nl=EN&id=2007092106&Base_PUB=0|access-date=30 July 2013|newspaper=Azg Daily|date=21 September 2007}}{{Dead link|date=July 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} ([archived])</ref> to forcibly annex Nakhichevan in case Azerbaijan attacks Nagorno-Karabakh.<ref>{{cite news|script-title=hy:Պետք է վերցնել Նախիջևանը|url=http://www.lragir.am/index.php/arm/0/politics/view/36886|access-date=26 July 2013|newspaper=Lragir.am|date=15 July 2010|language=hy}}</ref> Rəfael Hüseynov, the Director of the Nizami Museum of Azerbaijani Literature, in his written question to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in 2007 claimed that the "seizure Nakhichevan is one of the main military goals of Armenia."<ref>{{cite web|title=The serious threats arising from Armenia's invasive plans towards the Autonomous Republic of Nakhichevan of Azerbaijan and the responsibility of the Council of Europe|url=http://assembly.coe.int/ASP/Doc/XrefViewHTML.asp?FileID=11689&Language=EN|publisher=Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe|access-date=26 July 2013|date=27 June 2007}}</ref> Writing in the ''Harvard International Review'' in 2011 US-based Azerbaijani historian Alec Rasizade suggested that "Armenian ideologues have lately started to talk about the return of Nakhichevan."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Rasizade|first=Alec|title=Azerbaijan's Chances in the Karabakh Conflict|journal=Harvard International Review|date=18 January 2011|url=http://hir.harvard.edu/azerbaijans-chances-in-the-karabakh-conflict/|access-date=14 April 2016|archive-date=16 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416161456/http://hir.harvard.edu/azerbaijans-chances-in-the-karabakh-conflict/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==="Kura-Arax Republic"===
A potential military advancement toward central Azerbaijan, especially up to the Kura river, has become part of the Armenian political discourse in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. A maximalist and expansionist option, advancing up to the Kura river is seen by analysts and military figures as a method of forcing Azerbaijan to surrender and give up its claims to Karabakh. For others, it is a realistic policy which should be persuaded by the government of Armenia to take control of territories that are, according to its advocates, historical or natural part of Armenia.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hovhannisyan |first1=Artsrun |editor1-last=Aghababyan |editor1-first=Alvina |title=Հայաստանի Անվտանգությունը Տարածաշրջանային Ռազմաքաղաքական Գործընթացների Համատեքստում [Armenia's Security in the Context of Regional Activities] |date=2013 |publisher=Yerevan State University Press |isbn=978-5-8084-1742-7 |pages=112–113 |url=http://ysu.am/files/Book%20(1).pdf |language=hy |chapter=Ադրբեջանական ռազմականացում. ՌՕՈւ-երի դերը պատերազմում [Azerbaijani militarization: Role of the air force in war] |quote=Գալիք պատերազմը դատապարտված է ընթանալ արցախյան լեռներից այն կողմ: Հատկապես կարևոր է հայոց պատմական հողերի' Քուռ-Արաքսյան ջրային սահմանը, որի կամուրջների համար առանձնակի մարտեր կարող են ընթանալ: Դրանք Հայոց պատմական սահմաններն են, որոնք բացի պատմական արժեքից, իրենցից ներկայացնում են նաև հզոր բնական սահմաններ:}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Ter-Tadevosyan |first1=Arkady |author-link1=Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan |title=Կոմանդոսը պատերազմի ժամանակ առաջ գնալու մասին |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIxewp_9gzM  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/dIxewp_9gzM |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|publisher=Public Television company of Armenia |language=hy |date=10 May 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Խաղաղությունն ու անվտանգությունը չեն երաշխավորում, դրանք պետք է նվաճել. "Սիսական" ջոկատի հրամանատար |url=https://www.tert.am/am/news/2014/08/19/ashot-minasian/1169251 |agency=tert.am |date=19 August 2014 |language=hy |quote=մենք պետք է մեր ուժերով վերականգնեք հայկական բարձրավանդակի բնականոն սահման հանդիսացող Քուռ-Արաքս սահմանագիծը: |access-date=26 November 2018 |archive-date=26 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126221627/https://www.tert.am/am/news/2014/08/19/ashot-minasian/1169251 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Sukiasyan |first1=Luiza |title="Ոչ հայկական հողեր պետք է վերցնել, մասնավորապես' Քուռի ձախ ափում". Վովա Վարդանով |url=https://www.aravot.am/2016/05/25/696336/ |work=Aravot |date=25 May 2016 |language=hy}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Nshanyan |first1=Mark |title=Ղարաբաղյան կարգավորման մեր տարբերակը |url=http://www.chi.am/index.cfm?objectid=C68D7940-FB63-11E1-BDB2F6327207157C |work=chi.am |date=10 September 2012 |language=hy |quote=Սպասել, մինչեւ Ադրբեջանը հարձակվի, հասնել նրան, որ միջազգային հանրությունն Ադրբեջանին ճանաչի որպես ագրեսոր, հաղթել այդ պատերազմում (ասենք' հասնել մինչեւ Քուռ գետը) եւ նոր իրավիճակում հասնել ԼՂՀ անկախության միջազգային ճանաչմանը։}}</ref>

The phrase "Kura-Arax Republic" was coined in 2016 by Levon Shirinyan,<ref name="ShirinLratv2016">{{cite web |title=Կամ Քուռ-արաքսյան հանրապետություն կստեղծենք, կամ կանցնենք պատմության գիրկը. հավանական է 1-ինը. "Cui prodest" կամ ում է ձեռնտու |url=https://lratvakan.am/?p=82850&l=am/kam+qur-araqsyan+hanrapetutyun+kstexcenq+kam+kancnenq+patmutyan+girky+havanakan+e+1-iny+cui+prodest+kamvo%D6%82m+e+dzerntu |publisher=Lratvakan Radio |language=hy |date=December 2016}}</ref> a political science professor and a former member of the ARF,<ref>{{cite journal |title=Opposition Party Blames Government for Defeat |journal=Daily Report: Central Eurasia |date=25 June 1992 |page=[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.cu00648060;view=1up;seq=744 74] |publisher=Foreign Broadcast Information Service (via Interfax) |quote=...a member of the "Dashnaktsutyun" opposition party Levon Shirinyan...}}</ref> to advocate Armenian military advancement into the territory of Azerbaijan west of the Kura river (including Nakhichevan) to achieve complete surrender of Azerbaijan.<ref name="ShirinLratv2016"/> Following the April 2016 war in Karabakh with Azerbaijan, he stated that Armenia should "transfer the military operations" into Yevlakh and the confluence of the rivers Kura and Arax (Aras or Araxes). The explained the importance of the two as follows: Yevlakh is a major hub of the Baku-Tbilisi railway and the oil and gas pipelines, while the second would give Armenia an opportunity to assist the Talysh in reviving an independent state in the south of Azerbaijan.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ismayilov |first1=Murad |title=The Dialectics of Post-Soviet Modernity and the Changing Contours of Islamic Discourse in Azerbaijan: Toward a Resacralization of Public Space |date=2018 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9781498568371 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=7xBqDwAAQBAJ&dq=Levon+Shirinian+araks&pg=PA7 7]}}</ref> He argues that Armenia cannot have peace "unless we get to Kura-Araks" and "destroy Azerbaijan as a Turkic state."<ref>{{cite news |title=Will Lele Tepe help Azerbaijan in its advancement? (video) |url=https://en.a1plus.am/1237027.html |agency=A1plus |date=23 May 2016 |archive-url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2WMW7iUv9l8J:https://en.a1plus.am/1237027.html+&cd=1&hl=hy&ct=clnk&gl=am |archive-date=26 November 2018}}</ref> Shirinyan set up the Christian-Democratic Rebirth Party<ref>{{cite news |last1=Karapetyan |first1=Mkrtich |title=Meet the 11 People Leading the Lists in Armenia's Parliamentary Elections |url=https://www.civilnet.am/news/2018/11/21/Meet-the-11-People-Leading-the-Lists-in-Armenia%E2%80%99s-Parliamentary-Elections/349027 |work=civilnet.am |date=21 November 2018 |access-date=26 November 2018 |archive-date=26 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126221638/https://www.civilnet.am/news/2018/11/21/Meet-the-11-People-Leading-the-Lists-in-Armenia%E2%80%99s-Parliamentary-Elections/349027 |url-status=dead }}</ref> prior to the 2018 parliamentary election, which proclaimed "Kura-Araxian Armenia" as one of its main objectives.<ref>{{cite news |title=Մեր կուսակցությանն առաջին հերթին ձայն է տալու արդյունաբերող դասակարգը. "Թարմ ուղեղով"՝ Լևոն Շիրինյանի հետ |url=https://lratvakan.am/?p=111943&l=am%2Fmer%20kusakcutyan%20arajin%20hertin%20dzayn%20e%20talu%20ardyunaberox%20dasakargy%20tarmvo%D6%82xexov%D5%9D%20levon%20shirinyani%20het%20 |work=Lratvakan Radio |date=17 November 2018 |language=hy}}</ref>

The idea was adopted by the hard-line nationalist group led by Jirair Sefilian that took over a police base in Yerevan in July 2016. Varuzhan Avetisyan, leader of the armed group, explicitly supported the idea from prison in 2017.<ref>{{cite news |title=Վարուժան Ավետիսյանի և Մխիթար Ավետիսյանի բաց նամակը. ձեռնամուխ եղեք Կուր-Արաքսյան Հանրապետություն հիմնադրելու գործին |url=https://www.aravot.am/2017/03/28/871411/ |work=Aravot |date=28 March 2017 |language=hy}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Avetisyan |first1=Varuzhan |title=Բուժման սխեման՝ ապստամբություն – ազգային կառավարություն – ապագաղութացում- Կուր-Արաքսյան Նոր հանրապետություն |url=http://galatv.am/hy/news/201696/ |agency=Gala TV |date=9 September 2017 |language=hy}}</ref> Sefilian did so in April 2018.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ժիրայր Սէֆիլյանի և Սասնա Ծռերի հայտարարությունը․ Զորակցում ենք պայքարող ժողովրդին |url=http://galatv.am/hy/news/226192/ |publisher=Gala TV |language=hy |date=14 April 2018 |quote=․․․այսպես կոչված 3-րդ հանրապետության փոխարեն Հայրենիքի վերատիրացման և ազգային առաքելության վերաստանձնման և գործառույթն սպասարկող Նոր՝ Կուր-Արաքսյան Հանրապետության կայացմանը:}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Սիրելի երիտասարդներ, դուք իսկական իրավատեր քաղաքացիներ եք և Հայոց պետականության նավը վերջապես կտանեք բաց ծով. Ժիրայր Սեֆիլյանի ու "Սասնա Ծռերի" ուղերձը |url=https://factor.am/48156.html |work=factor.am |date=20 April 2018 |language=hy}}</ref> Following their release from prison after the 2018 Armenian Velvet Revolution, members of the armed group formed the Sasna Tsrer Pan-Armenian Party, which officially adopted "Kura-Arax Republic" as one of its objectives. Their party program stated Nakhichevan and the areas of Azerbaijan west of the Kura should become part of Armenia and, thus, establish the Kura-Araxian Republic.<ref>{{cite news |title=Պաշտոնապես հիմնադրվեց "Սասնա ծռեր" համահայկական կուսակցությունը |url=http://armtimes.com/hy/article/145317 |work=The Armenian Times |date=1 October 2018 |language=hy}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title="Սասնա Ծռեր" համահայկական կուսակցության ծրագիր [Program of the pan-Armenian party Sasna Tsrer] |url=http://moj.am/storage/uploads/Sasna_tsrer_cragir.pdf |publisher=Ministry of Justice of Armenia |language=hy |date=8 November 2018}}</ref> Sefilian stated:<ref>{{cite news |title=Zhirayr Sefilyan: The Pragmatism of Sasna Tsrer is in Prospective Work |url=http://arminfo.info/full_news.php?id=35844&lang=3 |work=arminfo.info |date=19 October 2018}}</ref>
{{Quote frame|The goal should be to include in the Armenian state at least Nakhichevan, other territories of the artificial state of Azerbaijan to the right bank of the Kura. With the creation on the official territory of today's Armenia and Artsakh of the New Republic, the process of the collapse of the Russian-Turkish regional architecture will begin, which will be accompanied by the formation of the regional architecture consistent with the interests of Armenia. Staying within the existing territories, we will have to allocate for elementary survival much more of the resources we need so much for development. In other words, the attitude to the project of the Kura-Arax Republic proceeds from a very, very pragmatic issue. Whether we want or do not want to find our place, a free, dignified life under the sun, to have a future, a real hope for the re-acquisition of our entire homeland and the return of home Armenians.}}

== Public opinion ==
[[File:Ararat is and remains Armenian.jpg|thumb|Lebanese Armenians holding a poster during Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan's visit to Beirut in November 2010.<ref>{{cite news|title=Armenian protest against Erdogan visit turns violent|date=26 November 2010|url=http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/Nov/26/Armenian-protest-against-Erdogan-visit-turns-violent.ashx#axzz2XWWLJBKD|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130730045900/http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/Nov/26/Armenian-protest-against-Erdogan-visit-turns-violent.ashx%23axzz2XWWLJBKD|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 July 2013|access-date=28 June 2013|newspaper=The Daily Star}}</ref> The text reads "[Mount] Ararat is and remains Armenian".]]
[[File:Armenia and Artsakh graffiti in Yerevan.jpg|thumb|A graffiti in Yerevan of the map outline of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. The text reads "Liberated, not occupied."]]

There are no public opinion data concerning the United Armenia concept, however, it is popular among Armenians according to ''Hürriyet Daily News''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Goksel|first=Nigar|title=The Turkey-Armenia border, mental maps and incoherent policies|newspaper=Hürriyet Daily News |date=28 January 2008 |url=http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pageid=438&n=the-turkey-armenia-border-mental-maps-and-incoherent-policies-2008-01-28 |access-date=26 June 2013|quote=For borders with Turkey to open, Armenia must recognize the border with Turkey clearly, thus ending the popular (among Armenians) vision of 'Greater Armenia'.}}</ref> Moshe Gammer of the [[Organization:Tel Aviv University|Tel Aviv University]] and Emil Souleimanov of the Charles University in Prague both suggest that the concept is popular in the Armenian diaspora.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gammer|first=Moshe|title=The Caspian Region, Volume 2: The Caucasus, Volume 2|year=2004 |publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=978-0-203-00512-5|page=32|quote=In the first place 'Greater Armenia' is a concept which is said to have adherents in mono-ethnic Armenians as well as among the Armenian diaspora the world over.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Souleimanov|first=Emil|title=Understanding Ethnopolitical Conflict: Karabakh, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia Wars Reconsidered|year=2013 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1-137-28024-4|chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yfQzAAAAQBAJ&q=armenian+genocide+recognition+territorial+claims&pg=PT155 | chapter=Turkey's Relations with Armenia]|quote=...&nbsp;the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, one of the most influential political parties inside Armenia, still regards the "returning" of territory in eastern Anatolia as one of the priority goals of its activities; while the Armenian diaspora around the world is apt to strongly sympathize with this aspiration.}}</ref> Gerard Libaridian wrote in 2007:{{sfn|Libaridian|2007|p=42}}
{{quote frame|While it is true that not all Armenians in the Diaspora share the vision of a united Armenia as a political program, territorial aspirations were sustained, nonetheless, by the deep sense of injustice that Armenians generally felt [by the Turkish denial of the genocide and lack of any kind of compensation for the genocide losses].}}

A 2014 survey in Armenia asked what kind of demands should Armenia make to Turkey. Some 80% agreed that Armenia should make territorial claims (30% said only territorial claims, while another 50% said territorial, moral, financial, and proprietary). Only 5.5% said no demands should be made.<ref name="barometer.am">{{cite web |title=Ի՞նչ ենք ուզում Թուրքիայից [What do we want from Turkey?] |url=http://www.barometer.am/news/real-politics/20141219/178/ |website=barometer.am |language=hy |date=19 December 2014 |access-date=1 November 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304041622/http://www.barometer.am/news/real-politics/20141219/178/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> According to a 2012 survey, 36% of Armenians asked agree or somewhat agree that Turkish recognition of the Armenian Genocide will result in territorial compensation, while 45% believe it will not.<ref>{{cite web|title=Caucasus Barometer 2012 Armenia: Armenia will receive territorial compensation, if Turkey recognizes the Genocide |url=http://caucasusbarometer.org/en/cb2012am/ARMGEN73/ |location=Tbilisi|publisher=Caucasus Research Resource Centers|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611014035/http://caucasusbarometer.org/en/cb2012am/ARMGEN73/|archive-date=11 June 2014}}</ref> The online publication Barometer.am wrote: "It appears that our pragmatic population believes that all possible demands should be forwarded to Turkey [...] but a relative majority consider the practival realization of territorial claims to Turkey is unrealistic."<ref name="barometer.am"/>

===On Artsakh===
One researcher wrote in the ''Jacobin'' magazine in 2016 that "[f]ew in Armenia support [the] pleas to use Karabakh as a springboard to recreate 'Greater Armenia.' But the idea that Karabakh must be held no matter the cost is widespread."<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Pheiffer|first1=Evan |title=A Place to Live For|journal=Jacobin|date=1 June 2016 |url=https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/06/nagorno-karabakh-armenia-azerbaijan-four-day-war/}}</ref> According to a 2017 survey in Armenia 86.4% of respondents opposed any territorial concessions in the Karabakh conflict, while 8.2% accepted concessions for the sake of settlement.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mikaelian |first1=Hrant|title=Societal Perceptions of the Conflict in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh|publisher=Caucasus Institute |url=https://www.panorama.am/files/files/2017-12%20WP%20-%20Societal%20Perceptions%20of%20the%20Conflict%20in%20Armenia%20and%20Nagorno-Karabakh%20(1).pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180211104041/https://www.panorama.am/files/files/2017-12%20WP%20-%20Societal%20Perceptions%20of%20the%20Conflict%20in%20Armenia%20and%20Nagorno-Karabakh%20(1).pdf |archive-date=11 February 2018|location=Yerevan|page=28}}</ref>

According to a 2013 Caucasus Barometer survey, when asked about having Nagorno-Karabakh as a formal part of Armenia, 77% of respondents "definitely favor" such a status, 13% would be "accepting under certain circumstances", and 7% oppose it.<ref>{{cite web|title=Caucasus Barometer 2013 Armenia: Have Nagorno-Karabakh as a formal part of Armenia |url=http://caucasusbarometer.org/en/cb2013am/NK5AR_1/ |publisher=Caucasus Research Resource Centers|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611004658/http://caucasusbarometer.org/en/cb2013am/NK5AR_1/|archive-date=11 June 2014|location=Tbilisi}}</ref>

== In culture ==
The concept of creating a united state that would include all Armenian-populated areas has been the main theme of the Armenian revolutionary songs. Nersik Ispiryan and Harout Pamboukjian are among the most famous performers of such songs. One of the most widely known examples of these songs is "We must go" (Պիտի գնանք, Piti gnank) by ''gusan'' Haykazun written in 1989:<ref>{{cite web|script-title=hy:Պիտի գնանք|url=http://www.ktak.am/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?206.50|publisher=National Center of Educational Technologies|access-date=21 January 2013|language=hy|archive-date=3 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103235214/http://www.ktak.am/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?206.50|url-status=dead}}</ref> 
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:Ախ էն երկրի հողին մատաղ, պիտի՛ գնանք վաղ թե ուշ,
:Սիրով լինի, սրով լինի, պիտի՛ գնանք վաղ թե ուշ,
:Արարատի գլխին դրոշ պիտի՛ դնենք վաղ թե ուշ,
:Հերթով լինի, երթով լինի, պիտի՛ գնանք վաղ թե ուշ:

:Թեկուզ անանց պարիսպներով մեզ բաժանեն մեր երկրից,
:Հրով լինի, սրով լինի, պիտի՛ գնանք վաղ թե ուշ: 
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:Oh, God bless that country, that we must go to sooner or later,
:With love it will be or with sword, we must go sooner or later,
:We must put a flag on Ararat sooner or later,
:With line it will be or with march, we must go sooner or later.

:Even if impassable fences separate us from our country, 
:With fire it will be or sword, we must go sooner or later.
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[[File:Armenia map in Road home cartoon.png|thumb|The map of Armenia as seen in 2005 animated film ''Road home''.]]
From 2005 to 2008, four short [[Engineering:Animated cartoon|animated cartoon]]s were released by the National Cinema Center of Armenia called ''Road home'' (Ճանապարհ դեպի տուն) produced by Armenian animator Robert Sahakyants. It tells a story of a group of school children from Karin (Erzurum) in 2050 taking a trip throughout the "liberated from enemy" territories: Tigranakert, Baghesh (Bitlis), Mush and Akdamar Island. The country they live in is called ''Hayk' '' (Հայք) after the historical name of Armenia. The series was aired by the Public Television of Armenia.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=hy:Ճանապարհ դեպի տուն|trans-title=Road Home|language=hy|url=http://www.ncca.am/producing/view/article/21|publisher=National Cinema Center of Armenia|access-date=21 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611145221/http://www.ncca.am/producing/view/article/21|archive-date=11 June 2014 }}</ref> In one of his last interviews, Sahakyants stated: "If today I'm shooting a film about how we are going to return Western Armenia, then I'm convinced that it will definitely take place."<ref>{{cite news|script-title=ru:Аплодисменты Роберту Саакянцу|url=http://www.yerkramas.org/2011/10/29/aplodismenty-robertu-saakyancu/|newspaper=Yerkramas|date=29 October 2011|language=ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611143031/http://www.yerkramas.org/2011/10/29/aplodismenty-robertu-saakyancu/|archive-date=11 June 2014}}</ref>

== Reactions ==
===In Armenia===
Leading Armenian communist Anastas Mikoyan stated in 1919 that "Armenian chauvinists relying on the allies of imperialism push forward a criminal idea—the creation of a 'Great Armenia' on the borders of Historic Armenia. The absence of Armenians and the presence of an absolute Muslim population there does not concern them... our party cannot support the idea of either a 'Great' or 'Small' Turkish Armenia."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Sassounian|first1=Harut|title=Mikoyan's Surprising Comments to Nixon in 1959 About Armenian Rights in Turkey|url=https://www.azatutyun.am/a/29021998.html|agency=RFE/RL via ''The California Courier''|date=6 February 2018}}</ref>

Armenia's first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan (1991–98), in a widely publicized 1997 essay on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict titled "War or Peace? Time to Get Serious", argued that if Armenia was to officially demand "the return of Armenian lands" from Turkey and cancellation of the Treaty of Kars, it would only play into the hands of Turkey. He argued that it would "provide Turkey with more evidence of Armenia's expansionist ambitions" and direct more negative international opinion towards Armenia.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ter-Petrosyan |first1=Levon |title=Պատերազմ, թե՞ խաղաղություն․ լրջանալու պահը |url=https://hy.wikisource.org/wiki/%D5%8A%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%A6%D5%B4,_%D5%A9%D5%A5%D5%9E_%D5%AD%D5%A1%D5%B2%D5%A1%D5%B2%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6%E2%80%A4_%D5%AC%D6%80%D5%BB%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%AC%D5%B8%D6%82_%D5%BA%D5%A1%D5%B0%D5%A8 |work=Hayastani Hanrapetutyun |date=1 November 1997 |language=hy}}</ref> Petrosyan has called the idea of "Kura-Arax republic" a "fairy tale."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ter-Petrossian |first1=Levon |last2=Grigoryan |first2=Arman |author-link1=Levon Ter-Petrosyan |title=Armenia's Future, Relations with Turkey, and the Karabagh Conflict |date=2018 |publisher=[[Company:Palgrave Macmillan|Palgrave Macmillan]] |isbn=978-3-319-58915-2 |page=143}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Թոթափե՛նք պատրանքները՝ Ծովից ծով Հայաստան, Քուր-արաքսյան Հանրապետություն, միակ մեթոդը սա է․ ՏԵՍԱՆՅՈՒԹ |url=https://factor.am/375736.html |work=factor.am |date=27 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725084442/https://factor.am/375736.html |archive-date=25 July 2021 |language=hy}}</ref>

Gerard Libaridian, a former adviser to President Ter-Petrosyan, criticized August 2020 statements by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and President Armen Sarkissian on the 100th anniversary of the Sèvres Treaty as being "equivalent to a declaration of at least diplomatic war against Turkey." According to Libaridian, "Adopting the Treaty of Sevres as an instrument of foreign policy Armenia placed the demand of territories from Turkey on its agenda."<ref>{{cite news |title=A step, this time a big step, backwards |url=https://www.aravot-en.am/2020/09/01/263436/ |work=Aravot |date=1 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725075034/https://www.aravot-en.am/2020/09/01/263436/ |archive-date=25 July 2021}}</ref>

===In Azerbaijan===
Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev in 1998 stated in his "Decree of President of Republic of Azerbaijan about genocide of Azerbaijani people" that the "artificial territorial division in essence created the preconditions for implementing the policy of expelling Azerbaijanis from their lands and annihilating them. The concept of 'greater Armenia' began to be propagated."<ref>{{cite web|title=Decree of President of Republic of Azerbaijan about genocide of Azerbaijani|url=http://www.human.gov.az/?sehife=etrafli&sid=MTMyMjMzMTA4MTMyNjE1Mw==&dil=en|publisher=Azerbaijani State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons|access-date=21 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611150329/http://www.human.gov.az/?sehife=etrafli&sid=MTMyMjMzMTA4MTMyNjE1Mw==&dil=en|archive-date=11 June 2014 |date=26 March 1998}}</ref>

In 2012, President of Azerbaijan and son of Heydar Aliyev, [[Biography:Ilham Aliyev|Ilham Aliyev]], who has made several statements toward Armenia and Armenians in past such as "our main enemies are Armenians of the world",<ref>{{cite web|title=Closing Speech by Ilham Aliyev at the conference on the results of the third year into the "State Program on the socioeconomic development of districts for 2009–2013"|url=http://en.president.az/articles/4423|publisher=Official website of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan|access-date=8 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611150354/http://en.president.az/articles/4423|archive-date=11 June 2014 |date=28 February 2012}}</ref> stated that "Over the past two centuries, Armenian bigots, in an effort to materialize their 'Great Armenia' obsession at the expense of historically Azerbaijani lands, have repeatedly committed crimes against humanity such as terrorism, mass extermination, deportation and ethnic cleansing of our people."<ref>{{cite web|title=Address to the people of Azerbaijan on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Khojaly genocide|url=http://en.president.az/articles/4372|publisher=Official website of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan|access-date=21 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611150441/http://en.president.az/articles/4372|archive-date=11 June 2014 |date=23 February 2012}}</ref>

===In Turkey===
[[File:Coat of arms of Armenia.svg|thumb|Some Turkish sources have speculated that the Coat of arms of Armenia, which features Mount Ararat, currently located in Turkey, is part of the Armenian claims.<ref name="turkishpress"/><ref name="Hürriyet 2000"/><ref name="Bal"/> ]]

In December 1991, Turkey became one of the first countries to recognize the independence of Armenia from the Soviet Union.<ref>{{cite web|title=Relations between Turkey and Armenia|url=http://www.mfa.gov.tr/relations-between-turkey-and-armenia.en.mfa|publisher=Republic of Turkey Ministry of Foreign Affairs|access-date=15 August 2013}}</ref> Armenia–Turkey relations deteriorated during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, during which Turkey aligned itself with Azerbaijan. Turkey shares its Turkic heritage with Azerbaijan and the two countries are generally seen as allies in the region. The expression "one nation, two states" has been often used to describe the relations of the two countries.{{sfn|Cornell|2011|p=391}}

In Turkey, "many believe that Armenia's territorial claims are the main reason why the Armenian administration and lobbyists are pushing for global recognition" of the Armenian Genocide.<ref name="turkishpress">{{cite news|last=Sirmen|first=Ali|title=A Careful Policy Is Necessity|url=http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=167062|access-date=26 July 2013|newspaper=Turkish Press|date=16 March 2007|quote=Armenia's policy of seeking Greater Armenia is still being pushed. Under this policy, firstly the so-called genocide will be recognized and compensation and territorial claims against Turkey will follow.}}</ref><ref name="Hürriyet 2000"/> The Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism credits the idea of "Great Armenia" to Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosyan.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Dream of a Greater Armenia|url=http://www.kultur.gov.tr/EN,32317/the-dream-of-a-greater-armenia.html |publisher=Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism|access-date=26 July 2013}}</ref> According to Prof. İdris Bal "Turkey considers Armenian policy (and the activities of its powerful diaspora groups) since 1989 to be against its national security interests and territorial integrity. Armenia's failure to recognize the Kars Agreement, along with the frequent public references to eastern Turkey as 'Western Armenia,' provides a serious irritant to Turkey. The Turkish Mount Ararat is pictured in the official Armenian state emblem, which Turkey interprets as a sign that the 'greater Armenia' vision is still very much alive."<ref name="Bal">{{cite book|last=Bal|first=İdris |title=Turkish foreign policy in post cold war era|year=2004|publisher=BrownWalker Press|location=Boca Raton, FL|isbn=978-1-58112-423-1|page=272}}</ref>

According to ''Hürriyet Daily News'' some "foreign policy experts draw attention to the fact that Armenia has territorial claims over Turkey, citing certain phrases in the Armenian Constitution and Declaration of Independence."<ref name="Hürriyet 2000">{{cite news|title=Experts suggest Armenia has territorial claims over Turkey |url=http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pageid=438&n=experts-suggest-armenia-has-territorial-claims-over-turkey-2000-12-06|access-date=28 June 2013|newspaper=Hürriyet Daily News|date=26 June 2000}}</ref> The Armenia Declaration of Independence was passed on 23 August 1990 officially declaring "the beginning of the process of establishing of independent statehood positioning the question of the creation of a democratic society." It was signed by Levon Ter-Petrosyan, the President of the Supreme Council, who became the first President of Armenia in 1991.<ref name="1990 Declaration of Independence"/> Article 11 of the declaration read: 
:::"The Republic of Armenia stands in support of the task of achieving international recognition of the 1915 Genocide in Ottoman Turkey and Western Armenia."<ref name="1990 Declaration of Independence">{{cite web|title=Armenian Declaration of Independence|url=http://www.parliament.am/legislation.php?sel=show&ID=2602&lang=eng|publisher=National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia|access-date=30 June 2013}}</ref>

Turkish historian and political scientist Umut Uzer characterized Armenian territorials claims to eastern Turkey as "a racist and irredentist demand with regard to a territory which has never in history had an Armenian majority population. And these demands are buttressed with genocide claims which in fact deny the very existence of Turkey in its current borders."<ref>{{cite news|last=Uzer|first=Umut|title=The fallacies of the Armenian nationalist narrative|url=http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/The-fallacies-of-the-Armenian-nationalist-narrative-399368|work=The Jerusalem Post|date=27 April 2015}}</ref>

==See also==
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*Armenia–Turkey border
*Armenian national liberation movement
*Armenian nationalism
*Armenian Question
*Foreign relations of Armenia
*National Revival (Artsakh) in Artsakh
*[[Social:Repatriation of Armenians|Repatriation of Armenians]]
*Miatsum
*Provinces of the kingdom of Armenia (antiquity)
{{Col-3}}
;Other irredentist concepts ([[Place:Western Asia|Western Asia]])
*Pan-Turkism
*Whole Azerbaijan
*''Megali Idea''
*Greater Israel
*Greater Kurdistan
*Pan-Iranism{{Col-3}}
{{Col-end}}

==Notes==
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==References==
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