Loyalty

Following WWI, Armenians, Greek, and Jews had to make an extra effort to demonstrate their loyalty to the state. In 1933, when Franz Werfel published his famous “Forty Days of Musa Dagh”, a novel depicting the Armenian Genocide, Armenian Catholics in Istanbul responded by burning the author in effigy.  Armenians have continued the same policy of rushing to demonstrate their loyalty to this day, especially when Diaspora Armenians annoyed Ankara.

Following WWI, Armenians, Greek, and Jews had to make an extra effort to demonstrate their loyalty to the state. In 1933, when Franz Werfel published his famous “Forty Days of Musa Dagh”, a novel depicting the Armenian Genocide, Armenian Catholics in Istanbul responded by burning the author in effigy.  Armenians have continued the same policy of rushing to demonstrate their loyalty to this day, especially when Diaspora Armenians annoyed Ankara.