More than a century years ago Talât Pasha declared famously that in the Eastern Provinces “The Armenian question does not exist anymore”. Today, far from being resolved, the former binary coding (Armenian/Turkish) is even further complicated by a third element— the ongoing Kurdish question (doza Kurdistanê). While most research and journalistic works frame the Armenian issue and the Kurdish issue as two separate events that merely coincide(d) in the same geographical space, this work explores their interdependence and the historical trajectories of two peoples fatally “tied together” across a spatio-temporal scale.

In my paper I identify two opposing lines of continuity through which both peoples are tied together: friendly and fatal ties. With regard to the first (friendly ties), I turn to the SSR Armenia and her role in fostering Kurdish culture and advancing Kurdish nationalism. Hereby, I argue that a marginalized community of Kurmanji-speakers—the Yezidis, previously othered as “devil-worshippers” (şeytanperest)— emerged as the vanguard in forging a novel, secularized Kurdish national identity. With regard to the latter (fatal ties), I link the irrevocable erasure of Ottoman Armenians to the emergence of an imagined “Northern Kurdistan” stretching over large parts of historic Armenia. This, finally, raises the question of Kurdish complicity in the Armenian Genocide—as state-mobilized regiments, tribal members and ordinary residents—in a geography where, as Recep Maraşlı put it, the descendants “are the children of both perpetrators and victims alike”.

一个多世纪以前，塔拉特·帕夏（TalâtPasha）著名地宣布，在东部省份中“亚美尼亚问题已不复存在”。如今，前者的二进制编码（亚美尼亚语/土耳其语）远未解决，但由于第三个要素-正在进行的库尔德问题（dozaKurdistanê）而变得更加复杂。虽然大多数研究和新闻工作将亚美尼亚问题和库尔德问题视为两个单独的事件，它们只是在同一地理空间中重合，但这项工作探索了它们的相互依存关系以及两个民族在一个空间上致命地“绑在一起”的历史轨迹时间尺度。

在我的论文中，我确定了两个相互对立的连续性线，通过这两种线，两国人民被绑在一起了：友好的关系和致命的关系。关于第一个（友好关系），我转向亚美尼亚SSR及其在培养库尔德文化和推进库尔德民族主义方面的作用。在此，我认为，一个边缘化的库尔曼吉语使用者社区-Yezidis，以前被称为“魔鬼崇拜者”（şeytanperest）—在塑造新颖的世俗的库尔德民族身份中脱颖而出。关于后者（致命的纽带），我将奥斯曼帝国亚美尼亚人不可挽回的消亡与想象中的“北部库尔德斯坦”的出现联系起来，该“北库尔德斯坦”遍布历史悠久的亚美尼亚。最后，这提出了库尔德人在亚美尼亚大屠杀中同谋的问题-作为国家动员的团，部落成员和普通居民-在一个地理上，正如雷塞普·马拉西里（RecepMaraşlı）所说，后裔“既是肇事者又是受害者的孩子” ”。