IN MODERN HISTORY ARMENIA HAS HAD NO GREATER ENEMY THAN ALIYEV SR.
Karine Ter-Sahakyan

PanARMENIAN News

It’ll be too late when Aliyev Jr. realizes that he cannot speculate
in oil and gas reserves ad infinitum.

On May 10 the celebrations of Heydar Aliyev’s birthday were held in
Baku. The range of activities and glorifications on behalf of the
deceased leader crossed all thinkable boundaries. Even Joseph Stalin
was not such a "personality cult" that is being inculcated in Baku
today. Likewise, Kim Il Sung, the legendary North Korean leader is in
not the same street as Heydar Aliyev. We gave ourselves the trouble
to look through the entire world press, which, according to the Baku
agitation and propaganda department, was flooded with "a huge number
of publications on the occasion of the birthday of the national leader,
the father of nation". Nothing at all was found anywhere except sister
Georgia. That said, more and more disappointed one becomes with the
trustworthiness and accuracy of the Azerbaijani media.

May 11, 2010 PanARMENIAN.Net –

Yet, Ankara celebrated the 87th birthday anniversary of ex-President of
Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev. The ceremony was attended by the 9th Turkish
President Suleyman Demirel, politician Hikmet Cetin, Director General
of the TRT Ibrahim Sahin, as well as other prominent political figures
of the country. Speaking at the ceremony, Deputy Foreign Minister
of Azerbaijan Khalaf Khalafov noted that Turkey and Azerbaijan will
struggle against problems shoulder to shoulder. "The principle of ‘One
Nation, Two States’, as noted by Heydar Aliyev, will always work,"
Khalafov emphasized. As the saying goes, God himself commanded Turkey
to celebrate the birthday anniversary of Aliyev, for it was he who
made Azerbaijan the "younger brother" of Turkey and supplied her with
oil and gas for lowest prices till the end of life.

It was Aliyev that implemented the project Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan that
bypasses Armenia. Generally speaking, in modern history Armenia has
had no greater enemy than Aliyev Sr. His son is only the white copy
of his father.

Now a little about the Aliyev family. The Aliyevs are Kurdish khans
by origin, who at the end of the 19th century migrated from Armenia
to Nakhichevan. In his time Heydar’s uncle, Hassan, who in the 30-40s
was Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, assisted Heydar in
promoting his career. The Nakhichevan clan has always been remarkable
in its persistence and perseverance in achieving goals. The clan came
onto the political scene as ruling in the late 60s, following the
appointment of Nakhichevani native KGB Major General Heydar Aliyev to
the post of the First Secretary of the Azerbaijani Communist Party
Central Committee. Becoming politician number one in the Azerbaijan
SSR, Aliyev did his best to form an obedient administration. To
the key posts were appointed those whom the first secretary could
unconditionally rely on, i.e. Nakhichevani people. Economic basis of
the clan was the flower trade in which Aerbaijan was engaged throughout
the Soviet Union. In a word, in Soviet Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev was a
"God, king and military commander". The situation lasted until 1987,
when Mikhail Gorbachev released Aliyev from his high post.

As a result, Heydar lost the most important levers of controlling
the situation in the country, and his many years’ work on building a
system of government burst at the seams. However, the revolution in
Azerbaijan, carried out in the summer of 1993, brought Heydar Aliyev
to the highest office in the Republic, giving him a chance to restore
and consolidate the pre-perestroika power of the Nakhichevani clan.

It is said that the main task of the Azerbaijani diplomats abroad is to
erect monuments to Heydar Aliyev. Moreover, should the ambassador fail
this mission, he is simply withdrawn. As for Aliyev Jr., sometimes it
seems that all his activities as president of Azerbaijan are aimed
at further glorification of his father, although, this must be the
limit! Sometimes reading all these eulogies to the deceased, who
actually died three months before the officially announced date,
one wonders: Can the whole of Azerbaijan be, in fact, thinking
this way? Or can they be scoffing? Although, the Azeris are more
law-abiding in relation to their leadership, than, for example, the
Armenians. Democracy and human rights are not for Baku. And it will be
too late when Aliyev Jr. finally realizes that he cannot speculate in
oil and gas reserves ad infinitum. His father could understand this
much better, despite the fact that it was under Aliyev Sr. that the
territories, now comprising the NKR security zone, were liberated.

Unlike his son, he did not rattle the sabre, and was within an inch
of signing a peace treaty in Key West. He did not sign it because of
his son. And now Ilham to the best of his ability thanks his father,
although as we said, all this looks like a cruel joke of normal
human feelings.