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	Country Information, a world portal on countries, politics and governments
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		This list covers English language country names with their etymologies.
		The modern ethnonym \'Azerbaijani\' has often become the subject of sharp differences of opinion between the ethnically Turkic inhabitants of the modern republic of Azerbaijan and the inhabitants of the Persian-dominated neighboring republic of Iran.
	www.countryiworld.com /wiki-List_of_country_name_etymologies (8702 words)

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	Azerbaijan article - Azerbaijan Azerbaijani Caucasus Caspian Russia Georgia Armenia Iran Nakhchivan - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Republic of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan or Азәрбајҹан) is a country in the Caucasus adjacent to the Caspian Sea that shares borders with Russia in the north, Georgia, Armenia, in the west and Iran in the south.
		However, the Azerbaijani government has been accused of widespread corruption (a kleptocracy, to some people).
		Some people state that there are also large Talishi and Tat minorities, about thirty percent of the population together, whose existence is either denied (they are counted as Azerbaijanis) or their numbers are downplayed in the official anouncements of the government.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Azerbaijan (929 words)

	Top20Azerbaijan.com - Your Top20 Guide to Azerbaijan!
		Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: AzÉrbaycan) is a country in the Caucasus, at the crossroads of Europe and Southwest Asia, with a coast on the Caspian Sea.
		A majority of the population are Shia Muslim and of Western Turkic descent, known as Azerbaijanis, or simply Azeris.
		The official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, a member of the Oguz subdivision of the Turkic language family, and is spoken by around 95% of the republicâs population, as well as about a third of the population of Iran.
	www.top20azerbaijan.com (1753 words)

	AZERBAIJANI GENOCIDE
		Since 1998, the 31st of March, Day of Azerbaijanis genocide is annually remembered in the Republic of Azerbaijan at official level, the respects are paid to genocide victims, the vigilance of world community is attracted to this issue.
		In Azerbaijani city of Guba, 122 Moslem villages were razed to ground, 115 villages were put under pillage in Zangezur, 211 villages in Irevan (current Yerevan).
		According to decision of USSR Council of Ministers, 10000 Azerbaijanis in 1948, 40000 in 1949 and 50000 in 1950 were obliged to leave their homes to new places.
	www.azerigenocide.org /genocidecampaign.htm (1471 words)

	Azerbaijan, Azerbaijanis and the Search for Identity
		Azerbaijanis often refer to their country as a bridge of different cultural and geographic regions.
		The flexibility of elements of Azerbaijani identity reflects the dynamism of the society, which is different from the ones with dangerously fixed identities, that is, those based narrowly either on ethnicity or religion.
		Azerbaijani society's ability to move ahead, despite being one of the few places in the former Soviet Union with direct imposition of military control, shows the strength of the national movement in Azerbaijan.
	www.beloit.edu /~sap/azerbaijan/Articles/AzIdentity.htm (3092 words)

	EurasiaNet Human Rights - Little to Lose: Opposition in Azerbaijan
		Azerbaijani domestic politics are characterized by increasingly limited pluralism, as President Heidar Aliyev’s administration exerts a dominating influence over both mass media and grassroots activity.
		Azerbaijani political parties, according to the more critical observers, are not necessarily representative of an association of individuals who share common political values and objectives.
		There are four main sources from which the opposition attracts financial support, explained Leila Yunus of the Azerbaijani NGO Institute of Peace and Democracy: membership dues, contributions of Azerbaijani businessmen inside the country, donations from businessmen that reside abroad and the finances of party leaders themselves.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/rights/articles/eav020303.shtml (3871 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Baku (Site not responding. Last check: )
		- } {{Otheruses2Baku}} Baku (Azerbaijani: BakÄ±), sometimes known as Baky or Baki, is the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
		In 2003, UNESCO placed the Walled City on the List of World Heritage in Danger, citing damage from a November 2000 earthquake, poor conservation as well as "dubious" restoration efforts.
		Kerim Kerimov, head of Soviet space program for 25 years and one of the founders of the Soviet space industry, was born in Baku on 14 November 1917.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Baku (1199 words)

	Azerbaijan Human Rights Practices, 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Following years of interethnic conflict between Armenians and Azerbaijanis, forces of the self-styled "Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh" (which is not recognized by any government) occupy 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory.
		The group's report lists 929 prisoners whose locations are known out of 4,774 Azerbaijani citizens who are missing or known to have been taken prisoner in Nagorno-Karabakh.
		However, the Armenians have not allowed the hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis who were forced out of the now-occupied territories to return to their homes.
	www.usemb.se /human/human95/azerbaij.htm (5724 words)

	10.1 Azerbaijanis Online - Birth of the YDnet Community - by Javid Huseynov
		We were encouraged by the fact that we were the first wave of Azerbaijani students in America, and we felt that we needed to communicate and keep in touch with each other.
		List member Adil Baghirov wrote a letter to Reuters to criticize the wire service for repeatedly labeling the Nagorno-Karabakh War as a conflict between "Christian Armenia" and "Muslim Azerbaijan." Azerbaijan has no official state religion, Adil pointed out, and religion was not a relevant factor in the war.
		Normally, one of us prepares a draft and a list of contacts, but members are free to write their own letters as well.
	www.azer.com /aiweb/categories/magazine/ai101_folder/101_articles/101_dostlar.html (1197 words)

	JTW Article - The Role of the Karabakh Issue in Restoration of Azerbaijani Nationalism
		Azerbaijani scholars prove their arguments with statistics of the fast growth of the Armenian presence in Karabakh and of their conversion from a minority into an overwhelming majority of the area's population.
		Azerbaijanis responded with retaliatory violence in Sumgait, an Azerbaijani industrial town on the Caspian Sea, in which attackers were mostly Azerbaijani refugees who had settled in the city following the deportation from Armenia.
		Azerbaijanis began to rediscover Islam not simply as a part of their general historical and cultural background, but as a living source of moral and spiritual inspiration.
	www.turkishweekly.net /articles.php?id=26 (14471 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		But an Azerbaijani journalist writing in "Zerkalo" in February quoted data compiled by the Vatan Society that unites those Meskhetians who consider themselves Turks which show that only 12 of the 220 villages from which the Meskhetians were deported are located in parts of Djavakheti where the population is predominantly Armenian.
		But some of the Azerbaijanis appear to have been monitoring the ongoing demands by the Djavakheti Armenians for improved economic and social conditions and employment opportunities and have recently raised their grievances in a bid to wrest comparable concessions from the Georgian government.
		A third grievance, raised by Azerbaijani activists both at that meeting and at a demonstration in Tbilisi on 27 March, was discrimination against Azerbaijanis in the allocation of plots of land.
	www.rferl.org /reports/caucasus-report/2002/04/12-040402.asp (1524 words)

	Azerbaijan
		Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan) is a country in the Caucasus, at the crossroads of Europe and Southwest Asia, with an eastern coast on the Caspian Sea.
		However, the Azerbaijani government has been accused of widespread corruption (a kleptocracy, according to some people).
		According to the CIA World Factbook, about eighty-nine percent of Azerbaijan’s population is ethnic Azerbaijani, or Azeris.
	creekin.net /n12-azerbaijan.html (1084 words)

	Azerbaijanis cite control system in crash - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The failure of an Azerbaijani airliner's control system likely caused it to crash, killing all 23 people on board, an airline official said Saturday.
		But Ilham Amirov, the deputy chief of Azerbaijani Airlines, said it was too early to dismiss other possible causes, including a terrorist attack, of Friday night's crash of the An-140 twin-engine turboprop.
		The passenger list included several foreigners -- a Briton, an Australian, a Turk, a Georgian and four citizens of Kazakhstan -- said Valida Aslanova, a dispatcher at the international airport in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, where the plane took off shortly before crashing.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2005/12/24/tech_glitch_likely_caused_azerbaijan_crash (599 words)

	Follow-up to Resolution 1359 (2004) on political prisoners in Azerbaijan
		It is surprised by the Azerbaijani authorities’ refusal to apply to political and presumed political prisoners the provisions of the Criminal Code (Articles 76, 77 and 78) allowing for the possibility of conditional release where a convicted person has already served either two-thirds or three-quarters of his or her sentence.
		It is important to stress as far as this second list of presumed political prisoners is concerned that the authorities have made considerable efforts and that half the individuals in the list have been released under the recent pardon decrees.
		As far as this second list of presumed political prisoners is concerned, the authorities, and especially the pardons commission, are standing very firm and refusing to examine the cases of individuals they consider to be ordinary criminals and terrorists.
	assembly.coe.int /Documents/WorkingDocs/Doc05/EDOC10564.htm (10578 words)

	Azerbaijan - Psychology Central
		The Republic of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan or Azərbaycan Respublikası) is a country in the Caucasus, at the crossroads of Europe and Southwest Asia, with a coast on the Caspian Sea.
		It has frontiers with Russia in the north, Georgia in the northwest, Armenia in the west, and Iran in the south.
		In the 11th century, the conquering Seljuk Turks became the dominant force in Azerbaijan and laid the ethnic foundation of contemporary Azerbaijanis or Azeri Turks.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Azerbaijan (1878 words)

	ABC News: Azerbaijanis Cite Control System in Crash (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Police officers secure the wreckage of an An-140 twin turboprop belonging to Azerbaijani Airlines, passenger plane, which crashed late Friday, at the crash site, in the Sabunchi region north of the capital, Baku, early Saturday, Dec. 24, 2005.
		The passenger list for a crashed Azerbaijani airliner included a Briton, an Australian and a Turk, an airport official said Saturday.
		The passenger list included several foreigners a Briton, an Australian, a Turk, a Georgian and four citizens of Kazakhstan said Valida Aslanova, a dispatcher at the international airport in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, where the plane took off shortly before crashing.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1440241 (434 words)

	Greece indifferent to PKK/KADEK (Site not responding. Last check: )
		CHOHREGANLI: It does have an ethnic origin, since the problems of Azerbaijanis in Iran are unfortunately not the same as problems faced by Iranians in general The Azerbaijanian presence in Iran dates back to many centuries and in fact Azerbaijanis constitute the majority in Iran, as 51 percent of Iranians are of Azerbaijanian origin.
		If southern Azerbaijanis were able to control their own territory, the PKK wouldn't be able to use this region because the Azerbaijanis would never allow any act against their brothers in Turkey.
		CHOHREGANLI: A strengthening of the southern Azerbaijanis, their becoming a more influential player would be a great contribution towards Turkey solving its problems with both the PKK and the Armenian Dashnaks, because even if we don't actually do anything, just the message it would give to enemies of Turkey would be very meaningful.
	www.turkses.com /issues/pkk/iranian_azerbaijanis_help.htm (2760 words)

	Azerbaijan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The [[NakhichevanNakhichevan Autonomous Republic]] (an [[exclave]] of Azerbaijan) borders Armenia to the north and east, Iran to the south and west, and [[Turkey]] to the northwest.The countryâs formal name is the '''Republic of Azerbaijan''' ([[Azerbaijani languageAzerbaijani]]: AzÉrbaycan RespublikasÄ±).
		A majority of the population are [[Shi'a Muslim]] and of Western [[Turkic peoplesTurkic]] descent, known as [[Azerbaijanis]], or simply Azeris.
		''Main article: [[Culture of Azerbaijan]]''The official language of Azerbaijan is [[Azerbaijani languageAzerbaijani]], a member of the [[Oguz]] subdivision of the Turkic language family, and is spoken by around 95% of the republicâs population, as well as about a third of the population of Iran.
	azerbaijan.quickseek.com (1323 words)

	Azerbaijan Article, Azerbaijan Information (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Republic of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani : Azərbaycan orАзәрбајҹан) is a country in the Caucasus adjacent to the Caspian Sea that shares borderswith Russia in the north, Georgia, Armenia, in the west and Iran in the south.
		According to the CIA World Factbook, about eighty ninepercent of Azerbaijan's population is ethnic Azerbaijani, and the rest ofthe population is Russian, Armenian, or another ethnicity of the area.
		Some peoplestate that there are also large Talishi and Tat minorities, about thirty percent of the populationtogether, whose existence is either denied (they are counted as Azerbaijanis) or their numbers are downplayed in the officialanouncements of the government.
	www.anoca.org /rayonu/republic/azerbaijan.html (920 words)

	portland imc - 2004.01.25 - Azerbaijan--Next on the List for U$ Overthrow and Occupation?
		Aliyev, who succeeded his strongman father, meanwhile has been consolidating dictatorial powers: Most recently he was named director of Azerbaijani radio and television.
		Immediately after the election, protest demonstrations were met by "brutal and excessive force" carried out by the police, as a result of which at least 300 protestors suffered serious injuries and one was killed.
		Azerbaijani authorities have so far refused to carry out an investigation of the police violence, let alone punish any of the security forces involved.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/01/279199.shtml (2374 words)

	Felist.Com : Russian Military Analysis/ WPS/ Defense and Security Issue No. 78, 11 Jul 2003
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		The press service reports that Armenian units fired at the positions of Azerbaijani troops on June 28 and June 30, as a result of which two servicemen of the Azerbaijani Army perished.
		It is hard to say if this corresponds to the principles of social justice because Azerbaijanis and representatives of other ethnic groups accounted for 24% of the population of Nagorny Karabakh before the break-up of the USSR.
	felist.com /archive/state.military/200307/11082841.html (810 words)

	PESHAWAR: Russia sends list of missing soldiers: Pakistan’s help sought -DAWN - Local; July 5, 2003
		Russia has forwarded a list of 304 Soviet soldiers, who had gone missing in action (MIAs) or had become prisoners of war (POWs) during the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.
		The list of Soviet MIAs is dominated by Russian MIAs with 153 servicemen followed by Ukrainians with 54 servicemen besides 25 Uzbeks.
		The list also includes several servicemen belonging to Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Byelorussia, Tajikistan, Moldavia, Azerbaijan and Armenia and some from the former autonomous republic of Tataristan as well as one each from East Germany, the Czech Republic (former Czechoslovakia), and Poland.
	www.dawn.com /2003/07/05/local32.htm (615 words)

	ABC News: Azerbaijanis Demanding Vote Are Beaten (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Azerbaijani Protesters Are Beaten Back and Dozens Arrested As They Defy Rally Ban
		BAKU, Azerbaijan May 21, 2005 (AP)— Azerbaijani protesters demanding free elections were beaten back Saturday by police, who arrested dozens as they broke up a banned rally in the oil-rich former Soviet republic on the Caspian Sea four days before the inauguration of a new pipeline.
		Tension between the government and the opposition in the tightly controlled country has increased since an October 2003 election in which Ilham Aliev replaced his late father, Geidar Aliev, as president in a vote the opposition said was marred by fraud.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=778304&page=2 (389 words)

	United Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database - Document - List of Issues - Armenia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		List of issues to be taken up in connection with the consideration of the initial report of ARMENIA concerning the rights referred to in articles 1-15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (E/1990/5/Add.36)
		Is the massive exodus of Azerbaijanis from Armenia mentioned in the report a consequence of a discriminatory policy against them?
		In the Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD/C/304/add.51), it is stated that Armenian legislation hinders the position of education in minority languages.
	www.unhchr.ch /tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/10cffb3185761d5a8025684e005c15ab?Opendocument (1247 words)

	31 march - Day of genocide of Azerbaijanis. Events. Azerbaijan Internet Links
		In 1998 the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan issued the Decree on declaring of March, 31 as the day of genocide of Azebaijanis.
		This decree is demonstration of the national memory about the tragic events in the history of Azerbaijan and Azerbaijani people for the past century.
		The outrageous facts of mass killings, repression, expatriation of the Azerbaijanis from their native places are one of the tragic pages of the world history of XX century.
	resources.net.az /events5.htm (291 words)

	Armenia-Azerbaijan: Those Who Remained (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Simultaneously, the Azerbaijani community of Armenia emigrated wholesale to a republic that for many was an unfamiliar new homeland.
		She closely identifies with Azerbaijanis, since she is married to one.
		Felix Aliev is Azerbaijani on his father's side, a fact which has not deterred his many pupils, the most famous of whom is Yurik Sargsian, a world champion and Olympic silver medallist.
	www.iwpr.net /?p=crs&s=f&o=258296&apc_state=henh (2759 words)

	ABC News: Azerbaijanis Demanding Vote Are Beaten (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Azerbaijani police with riot shields and truncheons chase protesters in Baku, Azerbaijan, Saturday, May 21, 2005.
		Police beat protesters with truncheons and detained dozens of opposition demonstrators Saturday, dispersing crowds that pressed toward the planned site of an anti-government rally that was prohibited by authorities in Azerbaijan.
		"It is time for the Azerbaijani government to demonstrate its commitment to democratic reform with genuine actions," Freedom House said.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=778304&page=2 (368 words)

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