Bakur Karapetyan: Azeris do not know who they are

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 In return, the professor Suleiman Muradaliyev made a contrary view, arguing that Turkism became outdated and Azeris should be called Azeris.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.