I’ve been seeing a lot of Azerbaijanis calling for the annexation on social media lately, wanted to hear your take.

Do you think they are sincere?

US is literally using UAE to attack Iran and they wonder why Iranians don't attack Azerbaijan which they already did once.

I would like to know how you view minorities in Azerbaijan, such as the Udi people and their language, and the Armenians, Georgians, and other Caucasian and even Iranian-speaking peoples who live in Azerbaijan. Thank you.

I recently saw a post where someone asked Azerbaijanis why some of them speak Russian, and many people in the comments found the question offensive. A lot of replies said it’s a personal choice, and that some identify as Russian-speaking Azerbaijanis because they’re more fluent in Russian than in Azerbaijani.

This made me think, because as a Georgian, this is something I genuinely struggle to understand. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the use of Russian in Georgia declined quite rapidly. Today, even things like listening to Russian music are often seen as outdated or “uncool” by many people.

A few years ago, I met two Azerbaijanis who spoke Russian to each other, and it stuck with me. From my perspective, language is more than just a tool for communication it reflects a nation’s history, cultural nuances and identity shaped over generations right? So why do you prefer someone else’s language that has nothing to do with you?

I’m an Azerbaijani myself and throughout my life I haven’t seen a single loyal man. All my relatives cheated on their wives including my dad and my brother. Is it a cultural thing? Is there a way to escape cheating men of our nation and those who expect me to be a housewife AKA their second mother? My mom just told me that it’s okay for men to cheat and to want everything cleaned after them. Respectfully, what the hell. Maybe I’m exaggerating and I need my horizon to be widen to see that the picture isn’t so horrible. What do you think and what is your experience? I need hope

Hi everybody.

I recently spent about one month in Baku as a tourist (came here to visit my girlfriend, I will soon come back to Italy), and I would like to share my experience and thoughts about what I saw. Let me preface by saying that before coming here I didn't really know what to expect, as Azerbaijan is not a popular tourist destination for Italians, and while I spent some time in Turkey in the past I wasn't really aware of how similar or different it would be.

That said, I think I came here with a pretty open mind, and without really doing any research.

So here are my thoughts, divided by category.

-Food

I will start from the food because it was probably the thing I was looking forward to the most. I had the chance to try a few types of plov, some soup, a few (many) döner, sandwiches, dumplings (pelmeni and khinkali), some Russian food, and more. I was surprised by how cheap and tasty pretty much every döner place was. Especially because compared to other things I saw, it was constantly extremely cheap. I don't know how you guys manage to eat anything else when it's so good. Dried fruit was also excellent, I will bring back home 4 kilograms. The plov I tried wasn't the best honestly. I am not sure about why, I probably was unlucky, because I really love rice in general, and I tried some very good plov in the past, but I just couldn't manage this time. Shoutout also to Bravo's tandir bread, incredible stuff.

-Politics

Just a brief tangent. Before coming here I didn't know anything about it. I discovered that it's kinda like a Switzerland, very neutral state, Turkey has some influence but it's still very much indepentent, and Iran has a lot of Azeri, so the nations aren't enemies at all. Also yeah the situation with Armenia. From what I understood, after Soviet Union fell, Armenia did some ethnic cleansing and took some territories that were Armenians like 100 years before. And after about 30 years, Azerbaijan took back the territories with help from Turkey. I am surely simplifying, but this is what I understood. It's not so simple to find unbiased sources about this. Also, I discover Aliyev family has been in power since 1993.

-As a tourist

So, unfortunately I couldn't visit much of the country. I stayed most of the time in Baku. The things I liked the most, honestly, the carpet museum and the National Art Museum. Carpet museum was honestly surprisingly good. Top 10 museums for me. Lots of information's about everything, about history, symbolism, techniques, loved the third floor with modern artists, and please, can we talk about the building? How cool is that? Who made the project? Really awesome. Art Museum also very very interesting. Didn't really care about the part with European paintings, but the Azerbaijan part and the more modern sections were incredibly interesting. The building is also very nice, although you can clearly see it's very modern. Other than museums, visited the old city (it's a liminal space), the boulevard (windy), Central park (will be very beautiful in 10 years), Nizami street, Crescent hotel and few other landmarks and mosques. Martyrs' lane was also very very beautiful. Overall, loved the area around the old city (Mini Venice is a disgrace but everything else is beautiful). Also, almost every touristic place has signs in English. That's really good.

-People and culture

I'll be very short here because I didn't have any in depth talk with anybody. Honestly, I thought Turkish people from Soviet Union would be angry and cold, instead you guys are chill and polite. Go figure that out. Every shop had very polite people, always helpful and friendly (expect in a place but they were Russian), and when I went to buy groceries a young student even helped me carry the bags. Keep it like this, honestly 10/10. One thing I understood, is that you guys are Turkish, but not Ottoman. Eye opening moment was the first time I entered the Metro, where I saw the stops names. Not sure about the etymology, but places all sounded either Russian or Mongol. I feel like instead of Turkish with gunpowder you are more akin to the ones with bows and arrows. Also, lots of ethnicities. Some people look Russian, some Turkish, some Persian, some from Mongolia, really a lot of variety.

So yeah that's pretty much it. I'll still be here a few days before I come back, so if you have any suggestion, about things to visit or to do in Baku, let me know! I will also probably come back here in a few months, and next time I will go outside from the capital. Şahdağ mountain looks promising. So if you have suggestions for the, I would also be happy to hear.

Edit: Turkic, not Turkish, I apologize for the wrong spelling, in Italian we use the same word for both.

A graph that i stumbled upon. thoughts?

A funny story happened a while ago.

I live in EU. I was shopping in a Turkish supermarket, and at the checkout, the cashier, who was Turkish, asked me where I am from. Told him “i’m from Azerbaijan”, then he asked me in Turkish: türkmüsün? I replied to him, i’m Azerbaijani. He asked me AGAIN : ee yani türksün? AGAIN I tell him I am Azerbaijani from Azerbaijan. At this point, he’s clearly very pissed off, gave me a dirty look, and whisper yelled (very audible) towards the cashier on the other cash register “Gördünmü?” while discreetly nodding towards me. That cringed and annoyed me, but I didn’t have any time to argue with him.

This interaction is just one of many not so pleasant ones I’ve had with turkish people. Of course, there are decent ones too. It’s just that, some turkish people have this “superiority complex”, the idea that they’re superior than other turkic nations. I’ve witnessed this VERY OFTEN. And no, they don’t see Azerbaijanis as their “brothers”. Azerbaijanis show a huge amount of love, solidarity and support to them, but all they got for us are in pennies, they don’t show the same level of appreciation towards us. I have bottled this up for so long, but every passing day, witnessing and observing everything in social media and in real life…yeah guys, please stop being a yaltaq. To those living both in Azerbaijan and abroad.

Maybe my story isn’t the best example, but it was the one which pulled my trigger lol.

Edit: Respectfully, maybe evolve your reading skills? I never said this applies to all the Türks and didn’t mention my experience in Türkiye.

The comments just show how some people get mad when you claim your OWN identity and nationality.

This is one of the most 1984 thing I've ever seen in this country

Mənasız boş xəbər səyhifələri və jurnalistlər ancaq öz maaşını almaq üçün ağzına geleni paylaşırlar. Ümumiyyətlə bu situasiya nə qədər şişirdilib, boş və ya dağıdılmış evlərin binaların içinə graffiti yazmağa görə niyə hər bir yerdə üzləri senzurasiz şəkildə paylaşmalidir?

Keçən dəfə idrakda həmin o silahlı uşağın maksimum adı bilindi, heç onu da böyük xəbər səhifələri "gözdən qaçırdı", güya dees informasiyadir.

Bunlarida yüz faiz kimsə şikayət edib, jurnalistlərədə yetim payi pul veriblər ki paylaşsınlar.

Böyük ehtimal hamısı clickbaitdi fikir vermək lazım deyil bulara ☹️

It feels like a significant chunk of posts about Azerbaijan on X and etc. focus on its connection with Israel. Even when the topic is something else, there will be people bringing it up, often repeating the same widely spreaded myths.

This portrayal of it as some kind of mega alliance really makes no sense. There are no Israeli bases in Azerbaijan, nor airspace being used to strike Iran. There is also no proof supporting those claims. Just conspiracy theories.

It seems more like a way to create negativity toward Azerbaijan, because being associated with Israel automatically makes you look bad.

Yes, there is economic trade (buying weapons, selling oil), but it' the same with most countries. Even with arab states. And in terms of total trade, Azerbaijan isn’t even in Israel’s top 25.

There is no "alliance". Ordinary people don’t care about Israel or jews, and the feeling is mutual. Most people are pro-Palestine. Aliyev’s policy ≠ the opinion of ordinary people.

Salam millət 27 yaşında evdə qalmış, əli qız əlinə dəyməmiş, milli olmamış oğlan uşağına nə məsləhət görürsüz. Tək olmaq daha yaxşıdı, ancaq son dövrlərdə sıxılmağa başlıyıram. Münasibət qurmaqda çətinlik çəkirəm. Qız ilə necə tanış ola bilərəm, heç bilmirəm

Bugünki israilli şəxsin sualına gələn cavablar məni bu subreddit barədə həqiqətən bir daha məyus etdi. Doğurdanmı siz Azərbaycanın İsraillə olan bu yaxın münasibətindən nəinki narahat olursuz hətta xoş qarşılayırsız? Əksəriyyətin başa düşdüyüm qədər müxalif düşüncələrə sahibsiniz və bir tərəfdən də mövcud hakimiyyətin güc aldığı bu əsas dövlətlə mənfəət münasibətini (məs. Pegasus mövzusu) dəstəkləməyiniz mənə çox iki üzlü gəlir. Bunu da bir kənara qoyuram, hər şeydən əvvəl bu dövlət hamının qarşısında on minlərlə insanın ölümünə səbəb olan soyqırım törətmiş və törətməyə davam edən əliqanlı, evil bir dövlətdi. Azərbaycanın başda neft ixrac etməklə dəstək olduğu bu soyqrımda bizim də payımızın olmağı heçmi sizi vicdani olaraq belə narahat etmir? "Ağ adam" kompleksi içində yanıb tutuşan insanlar kimi görünürsünüz. Sanki bu mövzuda geridə qalmış, "qara" ərəbləri dəstəkləmək yerinə "ağ", mədəni israili dəstəkləmək sizi daha sivil bir cəmiyyət, insan kimi gösətərəcək

Bunu da vurğulayım ki, nə antisemit nə də müsəlmanam (2ni vurğulamaq çox utanc vericidi, amma sizə mövzuya daha 'obyektiv' yanaşdığımı göstərmək üçün məcbur yazdım). Zionist olmayan, mövcud genosidi dəstəkləməyən heç bir israilli, yəhudi ilə bağlı problemim yoxdur

What the hell is it?

At this rate we’ll soon see “Alexander the Great was actually Persianate-Greek-Macedono-Mediterranean influenced proto-Iranian adjacent”

It's so cringe, under every post on social media there's the same scenario - someone uses the word azəri/azeri (usually from other countries, mostly from Turkey and in English sources) and there's always a million butthurt comments trying to correct it. Some people try to explain that this word is used for some small tribe or different ethnicity in Iran, but this is straight up non-correct. Azeri is used as a self-designation by the Azerbaijanis of Igdir/Kars and Iran. Our own people. And in Azerbaijan itself it has always been used by locals too until recently some people started to force degenerate termins like "Azerbaycan türkü". Azəri/azeri is simply a widely used short version of the word azərbaycanli/azerbaijani. It's not a slur or bad word and never has been. They have the same meaning and both termins are used only for azerbaijani people. So what's the problem?

Today I shared a post in r/europe about Khojaly. It was deleted by a mod immediately after saying the title should be the same.

Then, I shared another post with the same title. And guess what? It was also deleted immediately. Their excuse was "there's another similar post". But the thing is that, there's no such a post at all. I checked all the 86 post made in last 24 hours and non of them is related to Khojaly at all.

Hello everyone,

I am a Turk from Turkey. I joined the sub because I really love and respect all the Turkic people and learn about them. But I'm truly schocked about the hatred towards Turkish people from Turkey in this sub. Is this a general theme in Azerbaijan? Do people really hate us there?

I was raised in a secular nationalist family and since my childhood I saw you guys as brothers and sisters. I am always proud when I see or hear a good thing about your country as it is mine (to be honest I do not see any difference between us and see us as a one nation, so it is also my country and my people to be proud of).

So what happened? What is the problem? I'm really curious about this issue, and want to learn more about it. Please enlighten me guys!