Erdogan Officially Declared 2019 as the Year of Armenian Portasar

• 01.12.2019, 10:05
•  Region,  World,  Armenia

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan officially declared 2019 as the year of the Armenian Portasar (in Turkish Göbekli Tepe, which is a direct translation of Armenian "Portasar" which means Mountain Navel).  Erdogan made these statement at the end of last year, on December 25, at a meeting of the Justice and Development party, Akunq.net reports, referring to the Turkish media. The aim of Erdogan is to stimulate the development of tourism in Turkey.

As Western Armenia TV reports, Portasar is situated in the South of the Armenian Highlands, 15 km south-east from the old city Urha/Edessa, Urfa/ of Armenian Mesopatamia. The discovery of the cultural layers/three layers/ of Portasar shows that it was a religious-ritual centre for sedentary people for several millenniums. The territory is in Armenian cultural area.

Armenian is one of the oldest languages of the region/Armenian Highlands and surrounding areas, Small Asia/which, according to the recent studies, was a spoken language 8000-9000 years ago. The name Portasar given to the monument means the centre of the Earth and life, navel, mountain. By the way, Portasar was named by people who knew it was a religious-ritual monument. They knew that life existed not only on the Earth, but also in Heaven, they worshiped Anggh/Angel/ as the God who connected these two worlds. And stone pillars/cross statues, stone obelisks, stone icons and later also xachqars/ existed in Armenia all the times. This about 12 thousand year-old monument, discovered in Armenian Mesopotamia, is the archeological proof which, along with comparative linguistics allows to say that Armenia is the cradle of modern civilization.

It should be noted that Turkey presents Portasar to the world as a Turkish Stonehenge.

But at the same, it's worth to mention an interesting testimony preserved in Armenian historiography. Pavstos Buzand/V century/, telling about the deeds of the Armenian King Pap/353-374/, writes that he sent a delegation to the Greek king saying. "Cesaria and also ten other cities belonged to us. Give them back. Urha was founded by our ancestors, so if you don't want disagreement between us, give them back. Otherwise we will wage a war." (Pavstos Buzand, Armenian History, Yerevan, 1968, page 27, chapter ԼԲ). As it was mentioned above the monument could be named Portasar only by Hay-Armens, who were inhabitants of the region and knew about the religious-ritual nature of it. And the Turks, who appeared in those areas only 8-9 centuries ago, could not know that the mountain was a cultural monument.