The Journal of Mesopotamian Studies

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In the formation of image of Armenians, the role of the mass migration of Kurds in Armenia and gains of Kurds in Armenia is considerable. During life and death days, the Kurds defect from their own country to country of the Armenian. Thanks to the politics of the Soviet Union there, they gain important opportunities and rights in various fields. Under the influence of these main factors, in Soviet Kurdish novels, Armenians have come into prominence as positive, good, and idealized people. Armenian characters are represented as ideal models in personality, intellectualism, progressivism, hard-working, revolutionism. The Armenian society is also regarded as a progressive and a civilized society in these novels. Armenians mostly enter the agenda of these works in line with the Kurdish-Armenian relations. The attitude of the Turkish State has situated as a decisive power in the nature of these relationship. Kurdish-Armenian relationships have been regarded as good and ideal contrary to the relationships of the two nations with Turks. The history of Kurdish and Armenian relations mentioned in these novels began in the late 19th Century and continued until the day the works were written. Though not specifically, ‘Armenian catastrophe’ is placed among the subject of these novels.