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    A prominent filmmaker who is expected to be Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s main challenger in an upcoming presidential election has advocated a radical change of Azerbaijan’s strategy of winning back Nagorno-Karabakh.

    In an interview with “The Georgian Times” daily, Rustam Ibragimbekov said Baku should avoid antagonizing Karabakh’s predominantly Armenian population with threats of military action.

    Full article here: http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/25071355.html

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    Re: Azeri oppositionist reaches out to Karabakh Armenians

    Originally posted by ;344121
    A prominent filmmaker who is expected to be Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s main challenger in an upcoming presidential election has advocated a radical change of Azerbaijan’s strategy of winning back Nagorno-Karabakh.

    In an interview with “The Georgian Times” daily, Rustam Ibragimbekov said Baku should avoid antagonizing Karabakh’s predominantly Armenian population with threats of military action.

    Full article here: http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/25071355.html

    Further down the article

    The filmmaker has been absent from Azerbaijan for the past several months.

    He has expressed fears that he will be arrested on charges of tax evasion if he returns to the country.


    Some how I have a feeling he is not going to win the elections !!!


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    Politics is not about the pursuit of morality nor what's right or wrong
    Its about self interest at personal and national level often at odds with the above.
    Great politicians pursue the National interest and small politicians personal interests

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      Re: Azeri oppositionist reaches out to Karabakh Armenians

      From Wikipedia, source doesn't lead to anything

      Ibrahimbeyov was awarded the title of Commander of the French Order of Arts and Letters in 2000. He renounced this award in 2012 as a sign of protest against a French law criminalizing the refusal of qualifying the 1915 events as "the Armenian genocide." In an open letter, he stated: "For opportunistic purposes and electoral gains, which are so highly insignificant compared to the democratic image of the country, there has been passed a law preventing the people of France from exercising their basic civil right of self-expression." Ibrahimbeyov also quit the position of President of the Azerbaijan—France Cultural Ties Society

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        Re: Azeri oppositionist reaches out to Karabakh Armenians

        Azeri director hopes to shoot in Istanbul

        ISTANBUL - Anatolia News Agency

        Oscar-winning Azerbaijani director Rustam İbragimbekov has expressed the desire to shoot a film in Istanbul during a recent visit to the city, while also noting the difficulties of touching on the Armenian issue in his native country.

        “I visited Istanbul in 2000, when I staged a theater play titled ‘Looks like a tiger.’ I come here very often,” he recently said. “I would like to do a movie in Istanbul but I have not received any invitation.”
        İbragimbekov received an Oscar in 1994 for the movie “Sun Burn.” He was awarded the title of Commander of the French Order of Arts and Letters in 2000 but renounced the award earlier this year in protest against a French law criminalizing the refusal of qualifying the 1915 events as “the Armenian genocide.”

        “I do not think that it is right to use the word ‘genocide.’ France is ready to accept this without analyzing the documents, while Turkey is ready to open the archives. I think this is wrong. That’s why I did not take the award,” said İbragimbekov.

        Noting that his friends from France also supported his decision on the renunciation, İbragimbekov said: “The award is at my place currently. If the law is [again put through], I will give the award back to them. If not, I will keep it.”

        İbragimbekov also noted some of the troubles he had in writing stories about Azeris and Armenians.

        “I have a plot on a relationship between an Azeri man and an Armenian girl. However, they did not accept this in Azerbaijan. I do not focus on historical issues in my movies. This plot is different; it focuses on the events that took place in the 1990s, which ended with the freedom of Azerbaijan,” said İbragimbekov, adding that the plot had a very tragic ending, just like Romeo and Juliet. “What I am trying to tell with this plot is that the public is living in peace and that there is no problem between them.”

        Noting that the location of the real problem was in government and not in society, İbragimbekov said: “Everyone gets along with each other in society. I know many Armenians and Turks who get along very well with each other. The problem is not in society.”



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        It seems like we have found the lesser of two evils
        Too bad he has as much chance of being elected president of Azerbaijan as I do

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