The unofficial summit of the Turkic Council attended by the Hungarian prime minister and the presidents of Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, as well as current and former presidents of Kazakhstan, met on March 31. The group is scheduled to meet for its eighth formal summit in the fall of 2021 in Turkey.
Aleksandr Averin, a Russian who served with the pro-Moscow forces in the Donbass, says that “the Ukrainians have found inspiration in the recent war in Karabakh” and that they “feel themselves “a little like Azerbaijanis” especially because like the latter, they too now have drones they can use against any invader.
Although the collapse of the USSR ended the Cold War, the rivalry between the Western world and Russia, which occasionally reached the point of hostility, is still ongoing. In different regions of the world, these global powers compete with each other for influence. If in 2010-2020, the rivalry in the Middle East was associated with wars, after 2020 the main arena of this rivalry moved to the Central Asian region.
During an online conference on the current situation in the South Caucasus, hosted by Rossiya Segodnya news agency, the executive director of the “Eurasian Development” center Stanislav Pritchin and Alexander Karavayev, a researcher with the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Economics, presented their joint report on the “Settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict and the development of the South Caucasus: prospects and challenges.”
In March 2012, unnamed U.S. diplomats and military intelligence officials exposed Israel Defense Forces and Mossad activities in Azerbaijan, a Muslim country that borders Iran. “The Israelis have bought an airfield,” a senior administration official was quoted as telling Foreign Policy magazine, “and the airfield is called Azerbaijan.”
Both Turkey and Russia are major regional powers with a long history, in particular, an imperial past. The lands of the (geographically) small Azerbaijan between them were historically part of one empire or another, and only in 1918 did they gain a chance to become independent for the first time.
In ending Armenian occupation of Azerbaijani territories in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Russian-brokered accord between Armenia and Azerbaijan in November 2020 removes the Azerbaijani condition for the creation of a regional stability pact in the South Caucasus first proposed in 1999.
On April 8, government officials in Yerevan reported that some Armenian captives, held for months in Azerbaijan, would finally be returning home. Dozens of families of the captives, along with journalists, gathered at the Yerevan airport to await the joyous scenes that were promised.
In a virtual summit late last month of the Cooperation Council of Turkic-Speaking States, also known as the Turkic Council, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan argued for formally upgrading the
At virtual event marking 29 years to the establishment of Jerusalem-Baku ties, senior Azerbaijani official Farid Shafiyev says, "Historians attack the image of the Israelis and the Azerbaijanis. This is antisemitism and anti-Azerbaijanism. Nevertheless, that is also what unites us."
Instead of exercising pressure on my country – which is committed to the promotion of peace and security in the region – the international community should urge Armenia to fulfill all its obligations, writes Azerbaijan’s ambassador to the UK.
The UK’s recent integrated review claims that Russia is expected to be “more active around the wider European neighbourhood”, seeking strategic advantage through exploiting and undermining democratic systems and open economies.
If we’re looking to find a comprehensive answer to this question, we must list all the reasons, one by one. Just like in the famous story. There are forty reasons the canon didn’t fire. One of the reasons is the lack of gunpowder. If we list all the reasons to answer the question why there are no patrons of the arts in Azerbaijan, we’ll end up with a long saga.
The last several months have been marked by an intensifying campaign of pressure on Azerbaijan, especially from Western circles and media. This is nothing new to us—we are all too well aware of the sources and the reasons.
American congressmen, lobbying for the interests of Armenia, dumbfounded American taxpayers with another initiative coming from the Armenian lobby. The bill presented by Congressmen Frank Pallone, Jackie Speyer and Adam Schiff contains a proposal to allocate more than $ 100 million to Armenia for reforms in the economy and security, as well as for the reconstruction of the "NKR" which ceased to exist after the Second Karabakh war.
The western world often leaves Azerbaijan’s status as its own republic out of the conversation of regional diplomatic solutions, tending to view its strong ties to Turkey as mutually inclusive to Ankara’s agendas. This perception guides some of the rhetoric regarding the Karabakh conflict as well as the approach the incumbent U.S. President should take in U.S.-Turkey, Caucasus policy moving forward. Previous rhetoric’s flaws will need a new light shed to move toward lasting peace solutions.
The Iran-China agreement is important and it will be beneficial economically for both Tehran and Beijing. The agreement may also strengthen ties between not just China and Iran but also strengthen trilateral cooperation between China, Russia and Iran.
Separatism, as a political practice – especially if it’s a proxy movement – heavily relies on external support for attainment of some sort of legitimacy. The heads of separatist movements strive to build bonds with lawmakers in Western countries to voice what they consider their right to be independent from the country they broke up from.
The region’s three economies face distinct challenges as Azerbaijan follows up on its military victory, Armenia licks its wounds and Georgia copes with political turmoil.
What is the Turkic World and what role can it play in modernity, if historically these countries, connected by the language and the common ethnic roots, belonged to different empires, military blocs and even civilizations?
It may have been the subject of news headlines around the world in recent weeks, but Xinjiang was not on the agenda for an informal meeting of the Turkic Council on
The Turkic Council, officially the Cooperation Council of Turkic-Speaking States, declared the city of Turkistan in southern Kazakhstan as the spiritual capital of the Turkic world at their informal summit March 31.
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