BAKUR KARAPETYAN: AZERIS DO NOT KNOW WHO THEY ARE

PanARMENIAN.Net
19.10.2009 16:14 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Intensive discussions of the origin of the
Azerbaijani people have been held recently in Azerbaijan, Bakur
Karapetyan head of the Shushi fund told a meeting with journalists
in Yerevan.

According to him, Armenia should not neglect this issue, because it
concerns the Nagorno-Karabakh, as well.

The situation became tense after the doctor of historical sciences
Farid Alakbarli presented his thesis, which states that the Azeris must
be called as the Turks. In return, the professor Suleiman Muradaliyev
made a contrary view, arguing that Turkism became outdated and Azeris
should be called Azeris. "I also decided to take part in this debate
and suggested my version," Mr. Karapetyan said, noting that the Azeris
are a mixture of different peoples: the Tatars, Lezghins, Udine.

"Today Azerbaijan is an artificial entity. Within a short time it is
difficult to unite and form one nation, but they are in a hurry,
because they have problems with Armenia and Karabakh, " Bakur
Karapetyan said.

Bakur Karapetyan sent an open letter to the President of Azerbaijan, in
which he made an attempt to explain the true origin of the Azerbaijani
people. He sent a similar letter to the prime minister of Turkey.

"The Turkish authorities continue to deceive their people," Mr.

Karapetyan said, adding that the Turkish people still do not know
their own history. "From the XIV century, Turkey has committed about
50 Genocides, the last was the Armenian Genocide," Mr. Karapetyan
said. According to him, Turkey wants to present itself to the
international community as the successor of the Byzantine culture,
but in fact its true homeland is Mountainous Altai.

The purpose of Ankara is turkify all the people and it is in favor
of Turkey if Azeris call themselves Turks, the expert said. "Turkey
wants to neutralize the influence of Iran and Russia in Azerbaijan,"
added Bakur Karapetyan.