I'm pleased to contribute to the important book on the conflict btw 🇦🇲 & 🇦🇿 by a reputable academic publisher
@routledgebooks
. My key research in recent years was the effect of Orientalism on the conflict & I'm quite delighted it was acknowledged. Thanks to excellent editors!
The Orientalizing of Azerbaijanis and the Armenia–Azerbaijan Conflict
By
@shafiyev_farid
The author posits that Western and Russian experts traditionally portrayed the conflict between Azerbaijanis and Armenians through
#Orientalist
perspectives. (5)
Video from outdoor camera of Azerbaijan Embassy in Tehran. Iranian security guard manifests no reaction to an armed man entry to the diplomatic mission. He is not even alerted by the man's car clash with Embassy car, which happened a bit earlier, which could have triggered alarm
Geopolitics of COVID-19 pandemic & vaccination - webinar organized by
@AIRCenter4
featuring intervention by
@HikmetHajiyev
@WHO
rep in 🇦🇿, other officials and think tank leaders and experts from 4 continents
When Azerbaijan lost its territory in the 1990s, and had to accomodate 1 mln refugees:
1. No such aid was offered by the US (vice versa the Congress imposed aid restriction thru notorious 907 amnd.) or the EU;
2. Azerbaijanis had commited no single act of terror or attack on…
Приехавшие из Сирии и Ливана наемники армянского происхождения (батальон "Арабо"), заставляют гражданского копать могилу перед расстрелом. Над головой у азербайджанского пленника стоит Манвел Егиазарян.
Нагорный Карабах, 1992 г.
@Caucasian_bureau
@steve_hanke
Please study first geography, professor. Karabakh is a region of Azerbaijan. Then do conflict studies, especially, Armenia-Azerbaijan if you want tweet on it.
My edited book is available for pre-order at Amazon and Chicago University Press "Azerbaijan’s Geopolitical Landscape: Contemporary Issues, 1991–2018" with excellent contributions by
@AnarValiyev
@RobertMCutler
@MitchellBelfer
, Shamkhal Abilov, Kamran Ismayilov, Lucie Švejdová.
1/1 One of the main causes of today's clashes btw 🇦🇲&🇦🇿 is not only the lack of a peace treaty but also any meaningful progress on several tracks such as delimitation & transport links. 🇦🇲 just a few days ago announced that it abandons Zangezur/Meghri railroad project. Thus far,
Within 24 hours today
@NikolPashinyan
said that he is ready to sign a peace treaty with🇦🇿 and then - he is not going to sign any documents. Since 2018 we observe such turns in PM opinion. Today's demonstration in Yerevan manifests that people are against peace with 🇦🇿. Several
7
#Azerbaijan
police officers were killed today by Armenia planted landmine - apparently it was planted recently through incursion into Azerbaijan controlled area.
In response, Azerbaijan army began a counter terrorist operation to destroy Armenian illegal forces on its…
This is a European politician - while just today Russian leader sent a sublime message to Armenia "Why Armenia recognized Azerbaijan's territorial integrity",
@GunterFehlinger
himself engages in promoting separatism and division. Ukraine's tragedy is exactly born by such…
As Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 is turning into a Russian backed aggressor state, I ask myself if we shall discuss
#ExAzerbaijan
now?
I prefer
#Azerbaijan
as NATO Ally but in case of war …why not?
1/2 BREAKING news - Today, at 8.30 am Azerbaijan's Embassy in Tehran was attacked by an armed group. One Azerbaijan security officer was killed and another wounded.
To remind you - for the past two years it is the fifth attack on Azerbaijan's diplomatic missions. The first
Stepan Danielyan, another "peacebuilder" & Chairman of the Center for Partnership for Democracy, proposed to blow up the Sarsang reservoir and drown the cities of Azerbaijan. In 2009-2012 he was the editor of Religion and Society & since 2010 - editor of the Religion of Armenia.
Today full silence over ToivoKlaar tweet abt video w Armenia war crime. The horde of int experts & trolls can't accept that such crime can be committed by "the bastion of democracy & ancient Christianity". It's inherent to "wild nomads from oil rich country younger than CocaCola"
Azerbaijan extended the withdrawal of Armenian troops and illegal settlers until November 25. Does this stop Armenians from burning houses and destroying trees. Any appreciation from Western backers of Armenian occupation?
European Parliament’s Vice President Eva Kaili arrested over corruption allegations, prosecutors recover €600,000 in cash after searching 16 properties
Today, 8 Oct, 2 years ago, Ganja-city was targeted by 🇦🇲armed forces with missiles killing # of civilians. In the view of war crimes issues, which both sides should investigate, without political pressure (which usually applies vs 🇦🇿) & legal remedies,
Lachin was predominantly populated by 🇦🇿is, ethnically cleansed after 🇦🇲 occupation 17.05.1992. Some media outlets & experts studiuosly avoid mentioning it, more preoccupied with 🇦🇿 forces there. Its 1 of 7 regions outside NK accrd Madrid prnpls should have deoccupied as 1 step.
With Western media focus (negatively) on 🇦🇿, it's worth to recall these images with Pashinyan dancing 'yally' and his wife with gun in the occupied territories of 🇦🇿. It ends badly. I would call them - What to expect when you are expecting
US Embassy in Azerbaijan says it has credible reports about possible terror acts. Week ago there was warning from
#Azerbaijan
law enforcement. As
#Armenia
losing battleground it might resort to
#ArmenianTerrorism
, as it was the case in 1990s
Finally after 27 years
#Azerbaijan
implemented one of the provisions of resolution 853 of the UN Security Council, and liberated the occupied Jebrayil region of Azerbaijan.
I have been told that this villa in Shusha was built by Armenia football player
@HenrikhMkh
Mkhitaryan. It's part of illegal settlement. Sportsman like him should contribute to peace, not hatred. This house is built on blood of refugees & IDPs.
Today Azerbaijan's
@presidentaz
Ilham Aliyev said: "We are ready to talk with the Armenians living in Karabakh, but not with people like Vardanyan, sent by Moscow, who earned billions on the robbery of the Russian people."
Interesting discussion on disinformation.
@HikmetHajiyev
emphasized disinfo campaign against 🇦🇿during 44 Day war as well as yesterday's one sided resolution by
@Europarl_EN
. Panelists highlighted importance of social media literacy & education and int efforts to fight fake news.
Armenian who illegally settled on Azerbaijan ex-occupied territories in Zabukh, Lachin region & should vacate before 25.08, burns his house. When in 2020 Azerbaijan gave 15 days extra for Armenians to vacate occupied Kelbajar, they burnt their houses.
It will have consuequences.
According to media report,
@EmmanuelMacron
advised
@ZelenskyyUa
not to use the term 'genocide' because it is up to legal experts, not politicians, to make a judgment. Well, in the case of
#Turkey
's history, Macron's own judgment was faulted.
If Shusha was so important for Armenians why they destroyed it, kept neglected? The truth is known, a myth on Shusha was manufactured recently. As I visit the city with many diplomats, we see the scale of the crime of erasure & destruction
Azerbaijan allowed humanitarian cargo to be delivered to Armenians thru Ganja city, which was bombed by ARM army. AZE extended withdrawal of Armenians from Kelbajar for 10 days. No a single 'thanks', not mentioning in Armenian press.
#Armenia
shelled Ganja city. This will change the context of further military actions. It gets to new level. In the meantime,
#Russia
said peacekeepers can only be deployed with 2 sides consent. Its territory of Azerbaijan. PM
@NikolPashinyan
declared the fight until full victory
Today is the World Theatre Day. This is Agdam Theatre destroyed during Armenia occupation, reminder the result of ethnic cleansing & cultural destruction. Theatre is cultural object - in Agdam, Mariupol, elsewhere
Today Azerbaijan held Victory parade in Baku. Some Armenian & Western media outlets conducted disinformation campaign alleging that Armenian POWs would be shown. Those who lied aren't going to denounce the fake news. This is how propaganda and smear campaign work against 🇦🇿
Canada has always more or less balanced stance on
#Azerbaijan
-
#Armenia
conflict. The latest Canada MFA
@FP_Champagne
statement is copy-paste of France one-sided pro-Armenian statement on this issue. This is shame! Minister
@FP_Champagne
, you are not there to guard interest of
Today I visited liberated
#Fizuli
region of
#Azerbaijan
, occupied by
#Armenia
for 27 years. Everything is destroyed and pillaged. No roof, no windows...
Latest (04.10) strikes from Armenian territory targeting
#Azerbaijan
's civilian infrastructure, including water dam which might lead to humanitarian disaster and run contrary to Geneva convention. It is done to provoke and then drag third parties to the conflict
Azərbaycanda və ölkədən kənarda yaşayan həmvətənlilərim! Cəbhədə baş verən hadisələrlə bağlı Qərb mediasında anti-Azərbaycan kampaniyası aparılır. Sosial şəbəkələrdə fəal olmaqla yanaşı, xarici mediada op-ed, şərh və məqalələr yazmaqla
Very sad news - American journalist Thomas Goltz passed away.
He was the author of several informative and interesting books - Azerbaijan Diary, Georgian Diary and others.
He was a trailblazer, uncovering truth about the post-Soviet realities of the 1990s, which occasionaly…
"Armenia may never have anticipated the day Azerbaijan would unearth the graves they filled. Yet when Azerbaijan did recover its territory, the authorities in Armenia must have been aware that it would only be a matter of time."
Is it simply error or politically motivated campaign against Azerbaijan?
First
@CIJ_ICJ
issued press-release informing that ICJ rejected an Armenian claim but then deleted it,
and today
@EUmARMENIA
issued tweet revealing Armenian claim to be fake, just to delete it few hours…
Do you see a mosque? NO? It is in Fizuli. Don't you see how Armenia restored it? 63 other such mosques disappered in ex- occupied territories. Photo is my own during the trip to Fizuli.
Today is the World Theatre Day. This is
#Agdam
Theatre destroyed during
#Armenia
occupation, reminder the result of ethnic cleansing & cultural destruction. Theatre is cultural object - in
#Agdam
,
#Mariupol
, elsewhere
Apparently with several incidents against 🇦🇿 diplomatic corps, we see the return of notorious terror tactic used by Armenian radicals. As such terror acts against 🇹🇷 diplomats in 1970-80s & 🇦🇿 civilians in 1988-94 have not been strongly condemned, those radicals employs impunity.
France president
@EmmanuelMacron
's yesterday remarks is triumpth of ignorance, irony & cynicism:
1. Though conflict btw Armenia & Azerbaijan 100 years old, there is no century of hatred and animosity.
2. 2 years ago during the war Macron said that NK is territory of Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan, Karabakh, Shusha, 1992
Shusha was the historical and cultural center of the Karabakh region and Azerbaijan foothold. In April 1992, I crossed over the mountains to reach this city.
To the next tea in Shusha.
#Karabakh
#azerbaijan
#Shusha
Collaboration in Wikipedia is illegal according to Wiki rules. But I am not surprised. Wikipedia became propoganda tool in hands more organized ethnic based editors.
In Agdam, total destroyed by
#Armenia
occupation, or as I
@ANCA_DC
would say, by "first Christian state, frontrunner of democracy". Nothing left from the city.
Desicion of the US Senate to prohibit waiver to 907 Amendment to the Freedom Support Act, which restricted the US government aid to Azerbaijan, will negatively affect the bilateral relations but hardly have impact on Azerbaijan capability, including military.
Let's recall that…
@USAmbYerevan
@DrAndrewForde
Lachin road should be used only for humanitarian & commercial purposes. To ensure the transparency, Azerbaijan offered to establish checkpoints but Armenia refused. I believe the US govt check everything which enters its territory in & out.
Azerbaijani journalist Afet Telmanqizi visits the grave of her father in Zangilan - the cemetery is destroyed and desecrated by Armenian occupation.
Thousands of stories like that will haunt Azerbaijanis for many years and decades. Yet, as one of my acquaintances among American…
1920, L'Œuvre newspaper: Zangezour was ceded to Armenia. It is worth reminding those who claims that Soviets (Stalin) "gave" NK to Azerbaijan. The Bolsheviks "distributing" lands with divide-rule policy, without favouritism to Azerbaijanis.
#Аgdam theatre... Christianity, culture, genocide - these topics we can see in almost every article on the conflict between
#Armenia
&
#Azerbaijan
. Now time to turn story upside down. Unlikely, Orientalist Russian & Western media is ready.
Now some European policy-makers and experts call the Azerbaijan's goverenment for unconditional amnesty of those Armenians who committed war crimes.
First problem - the same people won't call for forgetting older historical events such as 1915.
Second, we do not see such…
Ruben Vardanyan has been arrested by "oil-rich" Azerbaijan. Vardanyan is an oligarch, a criminal, sanctioned by Ukraine, and even a warlord. Should we expect demand from Western human rights organizations about his freedom? It's time for
@OBaijan
to make his incredible trolling…
Kiev was hit by Iskander missile.
Two years ago in Nov 2020 Armenia (if it is capable to do it alone) hit Azerbaijan's cultural capital Shusha (allegedly it is also very valuable place for Armenians) with Iskandar missile too.
Another one was intercepted near Baku.
Two more people were killed by landmines in liberated Fizuli region of Azerbaijan. Number of killed & wounded is reaching almost 250. It's another war crime which continues unfold with little reaction from int actors which are so eager lately to interfere in 🇦🇲🇦🇿 peace process.
More than half of my life I spent with the fact that Shusha, birthplace of my grandfather, was under 🇦🇲occupation. First time, May 8 - the day of the occupation in 1992, has different meaning, though the burden of all these years of destruction & humiliation won't disappear soon
Dear Ambassador
@GrossZacharie
, you retweeted today a nice pic of Kayserberg town in Alsace, France. Its German speaking area. It's European experience, France territory with German population. Azerbaijan offers the same on Nagorno-Karabakh & hope
@EmmanuelMacron
understanding.
Russia MOD rep General-Major Igor Konashenkov reported that they cleaned mines from schools in Khankendi. Apparently mines were planted by
#Armenia
armed forces escaping the city during military clashes. Such barbarism & war crime must be condemned widely
Russia propaganda, now NTV channel tries hard to make current
#Armenia
-
#Azerbaijan
peace process spooky for Yerevan. Reason is not Armenian interests, rather the desire to keep military presence in the region.
Hafiz Pashayev,
@ADAUniversity
rector and ex-ambassador of 🇦🇿 in 🇺🇸: (memory from 1992 in book “Manifest of an Ambassador”): "Most nights I would lay in my bed and stare at ceiling for hours. The pain of humiliation that me and my people were living with never left me.
Speaking about today's situation it is not only issue of territorial integrity of Azerbaijan but also human dimension 750,000 refugees/IDPs cannot return to their home due to
1. Landmine contamination
2. Security threat posed by the presence of illegal forces on Azerbaijan's…
This doc from Russian imperial archive shows # of mosques in former Erivan governorate (today
#Armenia
) - 269. Now only one left which presented as Iranian one.