[1][5] According to Dutch anthropologist Martin van Bruinessen, the inclination of "the Armenian scholars around Garnik Asatrian" to separate Zazas from Kurds comes from a "definite political agenda".
[6] In a 1998 interview with Onnik Krikorian, Asatrian argued that the concept of Kurds as a unified nation is incorrect and only emerged in the early 20th century through political circles in Germany and England.
He stated that Kurmanji speakers in regions such as Western Armenia (Turkish Kurdistan) identify more with their tribal affiliations than as Kurds, lacking a genuine Kurdish national identity.
It should be taken into account that if some constructive dialogue is possible with modern Turkey—an established state aspiring to the European Union, then the Kurdish massif is an unpredictable and uncontrollable element, and unambiguously anti-Armenian.
We must remember that the ethnic group seeking to establish a state on our historic lands has, over the past 400 years, committed countless acts of plunder and massacres against innocent Armenians, desecrated our holy sites, and attempted to de-Armenianize Western Armenia.