Armenian-Azeri encounter

[lampron]

Re: Armenian-Azeri encounter

There was a town in Armenia called Aziz Bekov i do believe they changed the name to Viats dzor now.

you are correct

interestingly the Armenian surname Azizbekyan also exists

[lampron]

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What is interesting is that in Russia, Armenian expats feel culturally closer to Azeri expats than they do to Georgians

[Haykakan]

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What is interesting is that in Russia, Armenian expats feel culturally closer to Azeri expats than they do to Georgians

Not that strange since there was a big Armenian community in Baku.

[lampron]

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TBILISI, Georgia – An Azeri teahouse, and naturally Azerbaijani can be heard spoken inside. A dozen men, identical in appearance, sit at tables, chain smoking and drinking cups of çay (tea). “Salam,” we say, before approaching the waitress. The owners of another Azeri teahouse, ironically run by ethnic Armenians just around the corner, directed us here, saying that the waitress too is Armenian. She is, even though the teahouse is owned by an ethnic Azeri. Anyway, we take our seats at a table with the intention of once again exploring the reality of peaceful coexistence in at least one part of the South Caucasus.
Considered neutral ground by international organizations and local NGOs engaged in regional cooperation, communication and peace-building activities, the situation is, of course, very different than in Armenia and Azerbaijan proper. A recent survey by the Caucasus Resource Research Centers (CRRC), for example, found that 70 percent of Armenians disapproved of forming friendships with Azerbaijanis. That figure is alarmingly high, but the situation is even worse in Azerbaijan. There, 97 percent of Azerbaijanis said they didn’t look favorably on friendship with Armenians.
True, thousands of ethnic Armenians, mainly the wives of Azerbaijanis, are believed to still live in Baku, the capital, but they do so with some difficulty, maintaining a low profile to avoid discrimination. The same is true to a lesser extent for significantly fewer Azeris in Yerevan, although their ethnic kin from Iran do indeed operate more openly in the Armenian capital. Of course, locals don’t view them with quite as much hostility as they might if they were from Azerbaijan. Indeed, even a festival of non-political contemporary films from Azerbaijan had to be canceled recently after strong local nationalist backlash.
In both cases, however, it’s probably no wonder. Armenia and Azerbaijan fought a bloody war in the early 1990s over the disputed mainly Armenian-inhabited territory of Nagorno Karabakh. Over 25,000 were killed and a million on both sides were forced to flee their homes. Despite a tentative peace, the frontline remains tense, with dozens of young conscripts on both sides dying each year. Moreover, with the mutual massacre of civilian populations throughout history selectively taught in schools and kept alive by the local media, once could hardly expect that an environment for mutual understanding could exist.

http://araratmagazine.org/2010/12/armenian-azeri-relations/

[lampron]

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In Tsopi, a Georgian village close to the Armenian border, a group of 80 pupils study together at a dilapidated school with no running water or electricity. Although this scenario might not seem uncommon in parts of the world, the students, who are ethnic Azeri and Armenians might surprise you. Armenians know the Azerbaijani language and Azeris know Armenian. After countless years of war and animosity, co-existence seems like a Utopian fantasy for these two groups.

http://www.ianyanmag.com/unity-in-diversity-overcoming-negative-stereotypes-in-the-south-caucasus/

[Azad]

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In Tsopi, a Georgian village close to the Armenian border, a group of 80 pupils study together at a dilapidated school

[lampron]

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Thousands of Armenians were married to Azeri Turks in Soviet Azerbaijan

The number of people of mixed origin in Baku today is said to be around 10,000

Many Armenians in Stepanakert believe the residents of Aghdam were orginally Armenian, who converted to Islam a few centuries ago

Not forgetting that under the ottomans over several centuries, many Armenians converted to Islam, not just because of pressure to do so, but because the ottomans were powerful. Weak nations like Armenians who could not get organized to fight, were attracted by ottoman power

[Artashes]

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Thousands of Armenians were married to Azeri Turks in Soviet Azerbaijan

The number of people of mixed origin in Baku today is said to be around 10,000

Many Armenians in Stepanakert believe the residents of Aghdam were orginally Armenian, who converted to Islam a few centuries ago

Not forgetting that under the ottomans over several centuries, many Armenians converted to Islam, not just because of pressure to do so, but because the ottomans were powerful. Weak nations like Armenians who could not get organized to fight, were attracted by ottoman power

Your evaluations are those of a terk. The genocide(s) of the gd dmd seljerks left few of us alive. The following murders, slaughters, and genocide(s) by the competing autojerks and persion scum left even fewer.
You portray an overwhelmed and tortured peoples as "weak".
Your perceptions are terkish. Your perceptions are disgusting.

[Shant03]

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Can we ban this guy?

[Haykakan]

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Can we ban this guy?

Can you contribute anything to this forum besides can we ban soso.....?