The Turkic Language and Azerbaijan

 

Alik Bakhshi

 

The Turkic Language and Azerbaijan

 

     The Moldovan Parliament made a bold decision to rename the state language from "Moldovan" to "Romanian." "Those who for decades have been telling us that we, citizens of the Republic of Moldova, speak the 'Moldovan' language, not Romanian, have only one goal: to divide us," wrote President Maia Sandu. Russia, having annexed part of Romania, gave it the name Moldova, thus creating the Moldovan people and the Moldovan language. Although, in fact, the population of so-called Moldova is Romanians and their language is Romanian. A similar, and even, I would say, more complicated, situation has developed in Azerbaijan, a full understanding of which requires looking back to the distant past of the two most numerous peoples of the Middle East, namely the Turks and Persians (Iranians).

 

    The Iranians are credited with the powerful Persian Empire (Achaemenid Empire), which existed from 646 to 329 BC, and the Parthian Empire, which was revived after the empire of Alexander the Great and the Seleucid Empire. The Sassanid Empire (250 BC – 227 AD), which halted the Roman Empire's advance eastward, and the last Sassanid Empire (227 – 651 AD), which fell as a result of Arab conquests and the formation of the Arab Caliphate. It should be noted that from then on, the Iranians lost power within their own state for many centuries until the Islamic Revolution and the expulsion of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, from the country.

 

    The infiltration of the Seljuk Turks, which began particularly actively in 1036, ultimately led to the collapse of the Arab Caliphate. In 1055, Toghrul Beg deposed the Caliph of Baghdad and became Sultan of Baghdad, and the Ottoman Empire began to emerge in Asia Minor. In 1256, the Middle East was invaded by the Mongols, establishing the Turco-Mongol Empire. The Hulagunid Empire (1256–1335) with its capital in Tabriz. An important point for understanding the future situation discussed in this article is that the official languages ​​of the Hulagunid Empire were Turkic and Farsi (Persian). However, traditionally, Farsi continued to be used exclusively in Eastern poetry.

 

   The Hulagunid dynasty was later replaced by the Timurids. A talented military leader of Turco-Mongol origin, Timur (demir, meaning "iron" in Turkic), known in Europe as Tamerlane, created the empire of "Great Turan" (1370–1507) with its capital in Samarkand.

 

 

    Timur became ruler of the entire East. He defeated the army of the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid, and his campaign against Khan Tokhtamysh ended with the complete defeat of the Golden Horde and Tokhtamysh's pursuit to the borders of Moscow. After this campaign, the Golden Horde never recovered and subsequently became easy prey for the Moscow Principality. In my opinion, the main problem of the Turks, and this can be traced throughout their history, is their constant internecine strife, which ultimately resulted in their inability to confront their enemies.

    After Timur's death, his empire disintegrated, and two warring Turkic alliances emerged: the Ak Koyunlu and the Kara Koyunlu. The former were Sunni, while the latter were Shia. The internecine war ended with the victory of the Ak Koyunlu, who turned their attention to the by then-strengthened Ottoman Empire, but suffered defeat. Over time, as a result of internal struggle, power in the Ak Koyunlu state passed to the Turkic Safavid dynasty, who professed Shia Islam. The Safavid Empire (1501-1736), also known in history as The Qizilbash State.

 

   Two powerful, eternally opposing Turkic states emerged in the Middle East: the Sunni Ottoman Empire and the Shiite Safavid Empire, in which the official languages ​​were Turkic and Farsi.

 

 

    It is important to note that the Turkic-speaking population in the Safavid Empire was largely concentrated in its northwestern region, which in ancient times was called Antropatena, preserved but transformed over the millennia into the name Azerbaijan. The Turkic population of this historical and geographical area became known as Azeri, or, in Russian, Azerbaijanis.

 

    While power in the Ottoman Empire remained in the hands of the Ottoman dynasty throughout its history, the same cannot be said of the territory located to the east. Power of the Safavid dynasty passed to the vizier and regent of the last Safavid shah, Nader Shah, from a Turkic family. Afsharov, who proved to be a mad despot, known for his bloody repressions against his subordinates, brought Persia to a political and economic crisis due to continuous wars with its neighbors. As a result of a conspiracy by the court khans, Nadir Shah was assassinated in 1747, followed by a reshuffle of the Afshar dynasty's shahs. This disastrous political crisis for the country lasted until 1795.

 

     The situation in Persia stabilized with the accession of the new Turkic dynasty of the Qajars (1795-1925). However, this dynasty suffered the misfortune of having to confront the Russian Empire's plans to conquer the Caucasus. Russia, while seizing lands, dealt harshly with the indigenous peoples. The conquest of Kuban was accompanied by the complete expulsion of the Nogais, some of whom fled to Dagestan, while others found refuge in Turkey. Lands were distributed to Cossacks serving in the Russian army. Thus, the Kuban Cossacks and the Terek Cossacks, with their numerous villages, emerged on the seized lands. Having conquered the North Caucasus, the Russians invaded Persia. As a result of the Russo-Persian War of 1804-1813, the Russian Empire and Persia signed the Treaty of Gulistan (the village of Gulistan in Karabakh). According to the Treaty, Russia ceded Georgia, Dagestan, and the following khanates: Baku, Karabakh, Ganja, Shirvan, Sheki, Derbent, Quba, and Talysh.

    Russia's military successes in the wars with Persia were facilitated by the constant hostility between the Azerbaijani khanates. It should be noted that although the central power in Persia was exercised by the Shah, a Turkic ethnic group, the Turkic khanates of Azerbaijan, while formally subordinate to the Shah, waged endless wars among themselves. I have already noted that constant rivalry is the scourge of the Turks, haunting them throughout their history. There were, however, attempts by individual khans to unite them, but all ended in failure. Thus, the last and most significant of these, undertaken by Fatali Khan, also failed. The only remaining Turkic state with a strong central authority is the Ottoman Empire, which lasted for over six centuries.

 

   Russia did not stop there and in 1826 renewed the war with Persia, which ended in 1828 with the Treaty of Turkmenchay, according to which the Yerevan and Nakhichevan khanates were ceded to Russia, and a new border was established along the Araks River. The remaining 12 Azerbaijani khanates remained in Persia. Thus, the Azerbaijani khanates and their people found themselves in separate states.

 

   The Russians called the local population of the captured territory Caucasian Tatars, due to the similarity of their language to the Kazan Tatars. The local population, however, identified themselves as Turks or Azeri (Azerbaijan is a historical and geographical region), and their language as Turkic (Türk Dili), or Turkish in Russian. There was no state of Azerbaijan, no nationality of Azerbaijani, and no definition of language as Azerbaijani. Moscow, for political reasons, to conceal the close affinity of the Turkic population of the occupied territory with the Turkic people living in Turkey and Iran, named the newly formed Soviet republic Azerbaijan. The people became Azerbaijani, and accordingly, the language became Azerbaijani, although the local population had called it Turkic for centuries.

 

   The slogan "One people, two states," voiced by Presidents Erdogan and Aliyev, means one thing: the Turkic people live in both Turkey and Azerbaijan, and their language is Turkic. Incidentally, the Arabs also have several states, and their language is Arabic; there is no separate Egyptian or Jordanian language.

 

  In my opinion, it would be a good idea to restore historical justice and return the Turkic people of Azerbaijan to their Turkic language, as was done in Moldova, which restored the Romanian language.

 

   Restoring the status of the Turkic language to the people of Azerbaijan will be an important step for the Union of Turkic States.(1)

 

1. One language, one homeland.

https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/16879.html,   ,  https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2026/09/one-language-one-homeland.html

 

 1.04.2023

The South Caucasus Knot or World War III

 

Alik Bakhshi

 

The South Caucasus Knot or World War III

 

 

Armenia's aggression against Azerbaijan and the seizure of 20% of Azerbaijani territory, including Karabakh, with Moscow's support, plunged the South Caucasus into a 30-year war that ended with Armenia's defeat. However, since then, tensions in the region as a whole have become a coiled spring, ready to escalate into a much larger-scale war at any moment. This time, a clash of strategic and economic interests is looming, influencing the international political climate.

 

Since ancient times, production and trade have been essential attributes of human civilization, for which routes are crucial. For many centuries, one such route was the Great Silk Road, linking China with the Middle East and Europe. With China's decline, the Great Silk Road lost its former significance. However, today, with China emerging as the leader in global manufacturing, the Silk Road has been remembered as the shortest of all possible routes. Furthermore, the delivery time for goods by land and rail is significantly shorter than by sea across two oceans. China has proclaimed the slogan "One Belt, One Road."

 

China's initiative to revive the Great Silk Road, which essentially embodies the "One Belt, One Road" slogan, has not been universally embraced. While the EU, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Central Asian countries supported the Chinese initiative, Russia, which considered itself a potential partner in this project, found itself sidelined. Moscow lost the South Caucasus after the collapse of the USSR, and with it, its influence on the political situation in the region. True, an attempt was made in 2008 to bring Georgia back into the imperial fold, but this failed. Armenia and Iran have been the most cautious about this project, due to the inevitable change in the strategic situation. The fact is that this route would pass through Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Zangezur Corridor, and then Turkey. In this case, Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan enclave, which shares a border with Turkey, would automatically connect directly with Azerbaijan, thereby re-establishing uninterrupted communication between Turkey and Azerbaijan, which Yerevan believes threatens Armenia's security. The enmity between Armenians and Turks since World War I, which Armenians wrongly call genocide, undoubtedly plays a role here. But Armenia's even greater opposition to the revival of the Great Silk Road stems from the fact that through it and the Zangezur Corridor, without which the Chinese transport project would be impossible, all Turkic countries would geographically emerge as a single, monolithic union. This would result in the realization of a pan-Turkism similar to the pan-Germanism that today makes a united Germany the richest and most powerful country in Europe. For the same reason, Iran and Russia also do not want the Zangezur Corridor to be transferred to the "One Belt, One Road" project.

 

We have reached a very important related issue: the inevitable construction of oil and gas pipelines through the corridor, parallel to the transport route. The EU is waiting for sufficient hydrocarbons from the Caspian Basin countries to reach European consumers, bypassing Russia, which naturally causes Moscow to panic and resent Azerbaijan, as a key transport and energy hub. On the other hand, Moscow and Tehran must also consider the fact that the North-South transport project, linking Russia with the Indian Ocean countries, depends on Baku's consent.

 

I have an old article in which I foresaw the success and challenges of Azerbaijan as a central transport and energy hub, which I will quote below. Although changes have occurred 12 years later, the overall political standoff, which under certain circumstances could have very serious consequences, remains.

 

07.08.2025

 

 

Alik Bakhshi

 

Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline or World War III

 

 

 

The idea of ​​creating a Greater Germany led to World War II.

The idea of ​​creating a "Greater Armenia"...

 

Baku and Baku oil were one of the Wehrmacht's main strategic areas during World War II. If successful, all Soviet military equipment would instantly be reduced to useless scrap metal, while Germany would receive a much-needed source of fuel. As it happens, 60 years later, a tight knot of geopolitical problems is gradually tightening around Baku. These problems extend far beyond regional ones and could instantly escalate into a major regional war, potentially leading to World War III.

 

The nascent conflict stems from Moscow's long-standing expansionist policy in the Caucasus, as well as the easily predictable circumstances surrounding the inevitable economic difficulties awaiting Russia if the Caspian states implement a project to extract and deliver Caspian Basin hydrocarbons to Western Europe, bypassing Russia. Naturally, Moscow will make every effort, including military force, to maintain its monopoly in this vital economic sector. However, its first attempt, in the 2008 war with Georgia, failed to achieve its goal. It failed to capture Georgia, even though a tank column was already on the outskirts of Tbilisi. The fact is that by taking Georgia, Moscow takes control of the existing Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline and eliminates any possibility of hydrocarbon exports by the Caspian countries without going through Russia. Furthermore, a major strategic gap—the continuity of the Moscow-Yerevan-Tehran axis—will be eliminated. It's quite possible that Russia's military provocation in Georgia was prompted by a powerful Armenian lobby, as Armenia's isolated position not only hampers military cooperation between the Axis powers but also worsens Armenia's already tragic economic situation.

 

The final episode of Russia's perennial confrontation with Turkey culminated in the late 19th century with the creation of a buffer zone on the established border, namely, in the territory of the Yerevan Khanate of Azerbaijan, by expelling the local Turkic population and resettling it en masse with Armenians from Turkey and Iran.

The Karabakh Khanate was settled to a somewhat lesser extent by Armenians. It must be said that the Russians could have just as easily settled this territory with Kurds, who, like Armenians, inhabited a vast area of ​​the region, and here religious affiliation clearly played a major role. Russia saw a secure colonization of the Caucasus, especially in light of the long war with Shamil, in settling the territory with Christians. This is how the Kuban and Terek Cossacks appeared in the North Caucasus and Armenians in Azerbaijan.

 

As traders and artisans, the Armenians lived quite dispersedly across Turkey, Iran, and the Caucasus, creating compact population centers in large cities. Thus, at the time of the conquest of Georgia, Armenians constituted 60% of the population of Tbilisi. Interestingly, in Yerevan, the future capital of the artificially created Armenia, Armenians and Kurds each accounted for 5% of the population. In fact, the Kurds had no less right to claim the same territory for "Greater Kurdistan" than the Armenians for "Greater Armenia." This is probably why, when Armenians, with Russian support, launched a bloody rebellion in Turkey during World War I, the Kurds were also exterminated along with the Turks.

 

Armenians weren't directly connected to the land, and perhaps this is due to the lack of a state for this people before the arrival of the Russians. I may be mistaken, but I'll nevertheless allow myself to express some thoughts regarding the relationship between a people, their mentality, and the state. People are fed by the land on which they live, engaging in agriculture, but there are peoples, such as the Roma, for whom land as such holds no value; the Roma have a different way of existence. Armenians are excellent artisans, traders, financiers, and, frankly, organizers of mafia structures. They are traditionally dispersed throughout the cities and, for the most part, have no direct connection to the land. This is evidenced by the catastrophic state of agriculture in Armenia, or rather its complete absence, despite the fact that it resulted from the seizure of significant Azerbaijani territory suitable for agriculture. Having freed themselves from colonial dependence, peoples gained free access to their land, and agriculture was the first thing to develop. For example, Azerbaijan, Armenia's neighbor, not only provides for itself but also exports agricultural products to Russia, with Armenia being the only exception in this regard. Following ethnic cleansing, Armenia lost its Azerbaijani farmers entirely and barely makes ends meet thanks to the strong Armenian diaspora. As a result, the Yerevan Khanate, once populated by Russian Armenians, is becoming deserted, the population leaving the artificially created country for a prosperous life, spreading among other peoples in accordance with their mentality. Well, they can't make their own shoes! For example, in Baku, all the shoemakers were Armenian. This is confirmed by the well-known fact that all the Azerbaijani refugees from Armenia ended up in Azerbaijan, while all the Armenian refugees ended up anywhere, including California, but not in Armenia. This, I repeat, is, in my opinion, the reason why the Armenian people did not have their own state. And if, hypothetically, the Armenian Nazis succeeded in creating a "Greater Armenia from sea to sea," there would be no one to live in it.

 

The practice of seizing Azerbaijani lands to create an artificial Armenia continued under Soviet rule. Thus, in 1920, Moscow transferred the Zangezur region of Azerbaijan to Armenia. Karabakh was then granted the status of an autonomous region, and the small village of Khankendi (meaning "khan's village") near Shusha, the capital of the Karabakh Khanate, was renamed Stepanakert in honor of Stepan Shaumyan, one of the 26 Baku commissars and a participant in the horrific 1918 massacre perpetrated by the Dashnaks in Baku. As a rule, the alienation of lands was accompanied by the displacement of the Turkic population, followed by the destruction of historical architectural monuments. For example, in the center of Yerevan, not a trace remains of the fortress wall or the magnificent khan's palace and mosque.

 

 

While the Yerevan Khanate was 90% Azerbaijani Turkic, and 10% of the population was equally divided between Armenians and Kurds, today Armenia is arguably the most mono-ethnic state in the world. A very recent example of ethnic cleansing is the seizure of Azerbaijani territory in the Karabakh War, accompanied by the physical extermination of the local population. Not a single Azerbaijani remained in the entire territory of Azerbaijan occupied by Armenia. A very important fact should be noted here: the active participation of Soviet Army units on the Armenian side (the 366th Motorized Rifle Regiment in the attack on Khojaly), in addition to the transfer of heavy weapons, including artillery, tanks, and armored personnel carriers, to Armenian militants. The tragedy of Khojaly and Aghdam (a completely destroyed city) is the very essence of genocide, so to speak, the final chord of the enlightened 20th century – the bloodiest in the history of civilization.

 

 

Nineteen years have passed since the ceasefire agreement was signed, yet a political solution to the Karabakh conflict has still not been found, primarily due to Russia's fault, which essentially supports Armenia's aggressive policies, maintaining a military base there and thereby maintaining its military presence in the region. At any moment, in order to eliminate Azerbaijan as its main competitor for hydrocarbon sales, the Kremlin could give the go-ahead to Armenian Nazis eager to continue seizing territory for a "Greater Armenia."

 

Among the global rabble gathered around Putin's Russia, the Tehran obscurantists and Armenian Nazis occupy especially honorable positions as strategic allies. Modern Iran, unlike Armenia, is perhaps Russia's only fully-fledged and self-sufficient ally today. Shared political and economic goals in the region are bringing Moscow and Tehran closer together, and their alliance is directed against the Turkic countries of the Caspian Basin, primarily Azerbaijan, as a key participant in all projects transporting hydrocarbons to the West. While Moscow views Azerbaijan as a potentially dangerous competitor threatening to undermine Russia's monopoly on the hydrocarbon market, which could lead to economic disaster, Iran has even more reason to fear its northern neighbor.

 

Having gained independence after nearly 200 years of colonial rule under the Russian Empire, Northern Azerbaijan gained the opportunity to independently manage its wealth. Having chosen a democratic path and rejected Iran's initial attempts to bring its northern neighbour into the fold of religion by establishing religious schools in Baku and inviting young people to free education in Iranian madrassas (to its credit, this initiative did not evoke much enthusiasm among either the Azerbaijani people or the authorities), Azerbaijan is now demonstrating a high rate of development, and not just economically. Positive changes have affected literally every area, including all manner of international events. How could Azerbaijan, while still part of the USSR, participate in the Eurovision Song Contest and win prizes? Freedom has made it possible to open Azerbaijan to the world.

 

Modern Baku is a sparkling pearl on the shores of the Caspian Sea, a metropolis whose appearance is literally permeated with the spirit of East and West, a wonderful example of multiculturalism, which Tel Aviv's self-interested interests deliberately see as a threat, predicting that Europe will be thwarted by Eastern penetration. Baku is a city in which there is not a hint of the antagonism between civilizations so carefully cultivated by the ayatollahs in Tehran. Incidentally, speaking of Israel and Iran, Azerbaijan could become the country through which Israel and Iran will settle their differences.

 

Independent and successful secular Northern Azerbaijan, with a population of 9 million, is a thorn in the side of Tehran's obscurantists, for it is a good example of what independence and democracy can give a people. This circumstance is particularly troubling for Iran, with its 35 million Turks in Southern Azerbaijan and their natural desire to unite into a single state. Add to this Iran's claims to the Caspian's oil and gas wealth, and the emergence of a Moscow-Yerevan-Tehran strategic axis becomes clear. The Evil Empire, deprived of all its allies, or rather vassals, has found nothing better to do than nurture a monster like itself, which is about to begin waving its nuclear baton over the world like the Soviet Union. But above all, Iran poses a threat to neighboring Muslim countries, and all of Tehran's rhetoric about the unfortunate Palestinians is merely cleverly deployed propaganda to gain authority in the Islamic world, in the hope that other Muslim countries will follow Iran's Islamic revolution.

 

Here, it's worth pointing out a circumstance that exposes the Islamic clerics' ideological hypocrisy: namely, that while pursuing political goals, they, along with Christian Russia and Armenia, are essentially adversaries of their fellow Shiites from Azerbaijan. This openly hostile attitude of the religious regime toward a people with whom Iran has had historical ties for centuries illustrates the mendacity of the pious Tehranites. While harking back to the Quran to intoxicate, first and foremost, the devout Iranian people, they are in fact guided by purely practical gains, relegating the seemingly most important thing—Islam—to the background.

 

Armenia plays an active role in the Moscow-Yerevan-Tehran strategic axis. (1) Moscow benefits from maintaining the simmering Karabakh conflict, so that at any moment it can give the go-ahead to the Armenian Dashnaks, who have tasted blood, eager to continue their aggression against the people of Azerbaijan. The primary goal of the Armenian Nazis is to wipe Northern Azerbaijan off the face of the earth by exterminating the Azerbaijani people. It is precisely through the physical elimination of Azerbaijanis, and in no other way, as has already been accomplished in the Azerbaijani territory occupied by Moscow as a result of the Karabakh War, that a "Greater Armenia" can be created. Like a rabid dog unleashed, Armenian militants will rush into the plains of Azerbaijan to reduce Baku and Ganja to ruins and present the world with a fait accompli.

 

However, Turkey opposes these plans, having already thwarted the Dashnaks in 1918 by sending an army to save the Azerbaijani people from complete extermination in an unprecedented massacre. During the Karabakh War, Turkey could not provide assistance to Azerbaijan because the war was fought within the Soviet Union, and any action by Turkey would have been considered external interference. This time, in the event of an Armenian attack on Azerbaijan, the situation is fundamentally different. Understanding that Turkey will not stand aside, Armenian propaganda has recently begun to actively exploit the lie of genocide in the hopes of deceiving the public, portraying Turkey as a pariah of the international community, and orchestrating various international sanctions, including military ones, if Turkey assists Azerbaijan in the event of a resumption of the Karabakh conflict.

Here we come to the answer to the question of why Armenia so desperately needs Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide, especially 100 years later, and what lies behind the persistence with which Armenian propaganda spreads the genocide lie. Everything becomes clear when we recall the goal of the Armenian Nazis—a "Greater Armenia" from sea to sea, which entails the seizure of Northern Azerbaijan. Judging by the Armenian Nazis' undisguised plans to wipe the state of Azerbaijan off the political map, they want to neutralize Turkey by tying its hands with genocide recognition, and deal with Azerbaijan without Turkey's intervention. Then, having gained access to the riches of the Caspian Sea, Armenia, with the support of the all-powerful Armenian lobby, will lay claims to Turkey itself.

 

The only thing the Ottoman Empire can be accused of, with a great deal of exaggeration, is the disarmament and deportation of Armenians from the frontline, where they committed a vicious massacre of the unarmed population. I mean vicious, for the Armenians rebelled not against the regular army but suddenly and mercilessly began slaughtering civilians. On the other hand, what else could the authorities have done to secure the rear in anticipation of the advancing Russian army? To the credit of the Turkish leadership, the army did not take any repressive measures during the deportation. One can't help but recall the deportation of Japanese from San Francisco and their isolation on an island after Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Incidentally, unlike Armenians in Turkey, the deported Japanese-Americans didn't even give any pretext for any demonstrations in support of Japan. The Turkish authorities didn't have an island at hand to deport hostile Armenians to. The tragedy occurred because the deported Armenians found themselves among Turks and Kurds who had previously fled the Armenian pogroms. The spontaneous reprisals of the common people against the Armenian rebels, who used the corpses of tortured Muslims to fill wells in villages so that those who survived would never even consider returning, can hardly be considered genocide, as the Armenian Nazis from the Dashnaktsutyun would have it.

The real culprits of the tragedy of the Turkish Armenians are the Dashnaks with their chimerical idea of ​​a "Greater Armenia," analogous to the German Nazis, who dreamed of a "Greater Germany"—the main perpetrators of the catastrophe, primarily of the German people, and the organizers of the genocide of Jews and Roma.

 

In an attempt to deflect blame, the Dashnaks, taking advantage of the chaos during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the subsequent, decisive war for the Turkish people's existence, began fabricating false documents to accuse the authorities of orchestrating the extermination of Armenians. Indeed, despite all the chaos that accompanied the empire's collapse, not a single government circular, order, or memo was found to initiate the prosecution of those convicted of planning genocide. The case of the 144 main perpetrators of the genocide, arrested by the British in 1919 on Armenian tip-off and held in a Malta prison, is particularly telling. The trial, which began in 1920, was forced to drop all charges due to the lack of a single document proving their guilt, even though the entire imperial archive was in British hands and all defendants were still alive. Incidentally, the main incriminating document, Andonian's book "Talaat Pasha's Telegrams," in which Andonian collected dozens of supposedly incriminating documents of the genocide, was found to be a crude forgery.

 

Returning to the similar issue of the Jewish genocide, as is well known, the Nuremberg Trials declared the Nazi Party and the SS to be criminal organizations, and all perpetrators were sentenced to death. The case was closed there; no one intended to try the entire German people, unlike the Armenians, who are seeking to have the Turkish people condemn themselves for the Armenian genocide, despite the Maltese court's decision on the matter.

 

Having completely failed to legally accuse Turkey of genocide, the Armenians not only continued to fabricate forgeries but also launched a global propaganda campaign in the hopes of deceiving the public and turning not just individuals but the entire Turkish nation against the wall. It should be noted that this propaganda was accompanied by global terror against the citizens of modern Turkey, unrelated to the genocide. The question arises: why, after all, doesn't Armenia file a complaint with The Hague Tribunal or the International Court of Justice? The answer is simple. The problem is that during the trial, the Armenians could easily turn from accusers to defendants. Incidentally, if we forget for a moment who started the Pacific War, America can also be accused of genocide against the Japanese, since American atomic bombs were dropped not on purely military targets, but on the densely populated cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, resulting in the deaths of approximately 500,000 Japanese. The death toll of Armenians in Turkey is approximately 300,000 (a figure that has since risen to 1.5 million is clearly inflated by Armenians). But the Japanese, unlike the Armenians, have the good sense not to broach the subject of genocide. There are sufficient documents, including the charter of the Dashnaktsutyun party, to accuse the Dashnaks of ethnic cleansing in Turkey in 1915 and Azerbaijan in 1918. Wasn't it genocide when, in 1918, in Kokand (Turkestan), a city far removed from "Greater Armenia," the local Armenian diaspora, led by the Dashnaks, completely slaughtered the local population in a bloody three-day rebellion, leaving no exception for women or children.

 

The Nazi essence of the Dashnaks, combined with the treachery of the Armenian diaspora, has resurfaced in Karabakh after a long period of silence. It should be noted that all these ethnic atrocities occurred with Moscow's support. Even now, Moscow can unleash the bloodthirsty Armenian Dashnaks at any moment, driven to savage fury by Azerbaijan's successes compared to Armenia's plight. Russia has adequately equipped its only ally in the Caucasus with modern weaponry, including S-300 anti-aircraft missiles and Iskander-M missiles, capable of delivering a precise and powerful strike deep in the rear. The presence of a Russian military base on its territory is of significant military and strategic importance, ensuring Armenia's superiority in the event of a renewed Karabakh war. To speak of Armenia's isolation is not entirely accurate. Firstly, Armenia borders friendly Iran, and secondly, if war breaks out, Azerbaijan, surrounded by enemies on three sides, would find itself isolated. There's no point in talking about a common border with Georgia, as Georgia's position in this case is completely identical. From the Caspian side, Azerbaijan is easily blockaded by the significantly superior naval forces of Russia and Iran. It's no wonder these countries have been increasing their military presence in the Caspian in recent years, deploying frigates and missile boats, presumably to protect the Caspian's ecology, which they see as a threat posed by the construction of the Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline between Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan. Meanwhile, Moscow has shown little concern for the Caspian's ecology over decades of ruthless oil exploitation, which has turned Baku Bay into a fuel oil septic tank. It seems the Kremlin hypocrites still care little about the environmental state of the Baltic Sea, along which the Nord Stream pipeline runs, but they are willing to fight for the Caspian's ecology, far from their shores.

 

Thus, the political and economic problems, as well as the ambitions of three states aggressive in the region, are resolved by the loss of independence, or even the complete disappearance of Azerbaijan from the political map. The only question is when this will happen—that is, when Armenia, with Russia's permission, unleashes a war. It must also be taken into account that Yerevan could independently provoke a war to seize its moment of military superiority. Clearly, Turkey cannot afford to remain on the sidelines, and a clash with Russia is inevitable. This inevitably raises the question of how quickly NATO can react. If we imagine the West abandoning Turkey and Azerbaijan, then the next in line would be the former Soviet colonies in Central Asia, and of course, Georgia. In short, Moscow will have no choice but to satisfy the request of the peoples of these countries, through the unanimous expression of their free will, to reunite with Russia. And the West will experience a Second Cold War.

 

Such a scenario is entirely possible, given the West's well-known impotence. American presidents are more often those who are good business managers and economists, such as Franklin Roosevelt, who relied more on Uncle Joe (Stalin) than on Winston Churchill in politics, which led to major problems after World War II. It seems the West needs a new "Fulton Speech" to sober up. How many times can we keep stepping on the same rake? One cannot help but recall the Eastern proverb: "Giving milk to a snake is like storing poison in it." The political amateur Bush Jr.'s "Friend Putin" will yet show the world the grin of a revived Evil Empire. This is confirmed by "Friend Putin's" defense of the Syrian dictator, who is "wiping out" his own people, just as Putin "wiped out" the Chechens. Yet back then, the West silently watched Putin's massacre of the Chechen people. Is there a fundamental difference in this example?

 

The world was very lucky in World War II that the aggressors, Germany and Russia (2), who started it, locked in mortal combat; otherwise, the political map would be completely different today. But is it worthwhile to roll the dice, hoping for luck, and calmly watch as the Kremlin's pseudo-democrats nurture an evil empire, keeping the Nazis of "Greater Armenia" on a leash, ready for aggression, and protecting the Tehran obscurantists reaching for the atomic baton?

 

 

1.   1.Armenia and the Moscow-Tehran Axis.  https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/91608.html 

 https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2026/09/armenia-and-moscow-tehran-axis.html

 

2. 2. Stalin's fatal mistake that saved the world.

    https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/20036.html    

https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2026/06/stalins-fatal-mistake-that-saved-world.html 

 

 

               9.06 2013.

 

Eurasian Economic Union or Great Turan

-                                                                    - Alik Bakhshi

Eurasian Economic Union

or Great Turan

    Aкt the recent Eurasian Economic Union summit, a significant event occurred. President Tokayev once again impressed with the frankness of his remarks about Russia and Belarus, which, he said, differ from the other members of the union in that the two Slavic countries constitute a single union state with a unified political, legal, economic, monetary, military, cultural, and humanitarian space, a unified union government, a unified union parliament, and a unified nuclear weapons system. On the other hand, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Armenia are members of the Eurasian Union, which are at a different level of integration, which, according to Tokayev, is an issue that requires discussion. Tokayev makes it clear that there is an imbalance between Russia and Belarus and the other members of the union.

    However, in my opinion, this circumstance gives the Turkic countries the right to create a similar union state, which could eventually be expanded to include other Turkic countries, including Azerbaijan and Turkey. In essence, we are on the threshold of the revival of Great Turan, which will replace the crumbling Russian Empire (1).

1. The first president after Putin will be the first president of Muscovy. https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/83920.html

May 27, 2023 |

2017, Ukraine do not miss the chance!

 Unfortunately, Ukraine did not take advantage of the opportunity to return the territories occupied by Russia.

Alik Bakhshi

 

2017, Ukraine do not miss the chance!

     In 2017, Ukraine is given a chance to clear its territory of Russian invaders. The fact is that in 2018 Russia will host the World Cup. So, if Ukraine starts active military operations in 2017 to restore its territorial integrity, it is unlikely that Putin will decide on an open military confrontation on the eve of the World Cup 2018, especially since the Russian president adheres to the lie about Russia’s non-intervention in the ongoing war of the Ukrainian state with separatist fighters in the South-East of the country. If Putin does not surrender the separatists and gets involved in the war, then the Mundial, the holding of which in Russia has already been called into question due to corruption scandals in FIFA, will definitely be covered with a copper basin. The reaction of the world community will undoubtedly turn out to be unfavorable for Russia, and regardless of military successes. The role of an outcast of the world community of Russia cannot be avoided. There is no doubt that in the event of a full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine, the latter will begin to receive military assistance from the West. The war will become protracted. By the way, a similar scenario already took place in the Crimean War of 1853-1856, which Russia successfully lost due to economic and technical backwardness. There is no doubt that for the same reason the current war will turn out to be a defeat for Russia.

 

     Here we must take into account a very important circumstance, namely, that Putin has no way back, he cannot keep the regions torn from Ukraine in limbo for an indefinitely long time. It is clear that the so-called self-proclaimed Lugansk and Donetsk republics are not capable of functioning as independent states on their own. On the other hand, if Russia “according to the will of the population” of these republics, or according to Putin’s definition of Novorossiya, annexes this part of the territory of Ukraine, then, as it were, an end is put, and thereby the legal possibility of further expansion is excluded, and after all, Putin initially planned to seize all of Ukraine on the basis of from the message to which he directly pointed out, namely, that Russians and Ukrainians are one people. Here the question involuntarily arises, where exactly does the Russian revanchist see the end of the borders of Novorossia, or, like in Russia, according to Putin's dreamy but significant joke, do they end nowhere. And isn't it time to remember Putin another name for Ukraine - Little Russia.

   I believe that Putin has been preparing for the return of Ukraine to the bosom of the empire for a long time, for which he introduced his corrupt henchman Yanukovych, interfering in the presidential elections in Ukraine, but the Maidan violated his far-reaching plan. With this in mind, and also taking into account Putin's undisguised regret about the collapse of the Soviet Union, after the World Cup 2018, he will activate his innermost intention to return the former colonial peoples to Russia.

   Therefore, Ukraine must get ahead of Putin, finally declare martial law in the country and begin to liberate its territory from the invaders right now, in 2017, otherwise after the World Cup 2018 it will face big problems. By the way, a similar situation was before the Sochi Olympics and in the article “Ukraine as a Victim of the Immorality of the West towards Russia” I wrote: “One thing is clear, before the Sochi Winter Olympics, Russia will not invade Ukraine, so as not to repeat the failed Moscow Olympics in 1980. Therefore, Ukrainians need to hurry up with joining the EU before the end of the Sochi Olympiad” (1). And in the articles “A terrible price for a roof from rose revolutions” for 12/26/2005 (2) and “Whose Crimea” for 02/06/2006 (3), that is, long before the annexation of Crimea in 2014, I foresaw a Russian military invasion of Ukraine . Then the Ukrainians missed, one might say, all the possibilities and even missed the traitor Yanukovych, allowing him to flee.

    Without a doubt, the desire of the revanchist Putin to restore the empire within the borders of the Soviet Union under the far-fetched and insidious pretext of "defending the Russian world", and exclusively through the annexation of foreign territories, while in Russia itself this notorious Russian world is heading towards an economic catastrophe, will lead to another collapse empire. And, if the situation for Putin, in which he has driven himself, provides for two outcomes, the first is to be crucified by an angry people at the gates of the Kremlin and the second is to plunge the World into a nightmare of nuclear war (4), then in general for the Russian people with its According to the imperial worldview, there is only one outcome - the inevitable loss of the empire.

 

1. Ukraine as a victim of the immorality of the West in relation to Russia. 

    https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2026/06/ukraine-victim-of-immorality-west.html

2. The terrible price of protection from Rose Revolutions.

     https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-terrible-price-of-protection-from.html

3. Whose Crimea.  https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2026/04/who-is-putin.html

4. Nuclear nightmare as the only way for the Russian Fuhrer. 

     https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2026/09/nuclear-nightmare-as-only-way-russian.html

 

 05/24/17

The terrible price of protection from Rose Revolutions

 

Alik Bakhshi

 

The terrible price of protection from Rose Revolutions

 

   The Rose Revolution proved highly contagious, and its virus, lethal to the ruling nomenklatura entrenched in the power structures of the former Soviet republics, including Russia, is inexorably spreading across the post-communist space from West to East. In a relatively short time, the virus has struck Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan, wiping out the Kremlin-dependent and corrupt party bureaucracy from the annals of power. Judging by the political situation, the virus has penetrated Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan. However, it appears these countries do not yet have sufficient fertile ground for its successful pro-democratic activity. The same can be said of Russia, where, despite the presence of democratic parties, the virus is powerless, not because the state authorities hide from the people behind the high walls of the Kremlin, but because a significant portion of the Russian people has a strong immunity to the democratic "infection." This is precisely why there are no representatives of Russian nationality among the leaders of democratic parties. (More on this in my article "The People's Destiny, or Every Cricket in Its Own Place.") This immunity is explained by the traditional Russian servility to officials of any rank and a great-power imperial worldview. And as long as this immunity is present in the people literally at the genetic level, no variety of the democratic virus poses a threat to the Kremlin. Consequently, power in the Russian Empire can only be totalitarian. Empire and democracy are incompatible!

 

  The situation is different in the former Baltic Soviet colonies. There, the peoples of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia have acquired national freedom and democracy simultaneously as self-evident and integral components of modern society. The color revolutions that took place in Ukraine and Georgia seem to have permanently brought their peoples within the legal framework of democracy. The only threat to these countries is the loss of territorial integrity, as the Kremlin will not exploit the difficult demographic situation in eastern Ukraine and Crimea, with their large concentration of Russians, and, of course, the extremely complex interethnic issues in Georgia. The democratic breakthrough in Kyrgyzstan, in the very heart of Asia, can be considered an unexpected phenomenon, but how serious it is, contrary to local perceptions, remains to be seen. As for the democratic situation in the remaining newly independent Soviet republics, it has undergone virtually no significant changes, and their democratization is hampered by the clan-based power structure traditional in the East.

 

  What is characteristic of all color revolutions is Moscow's extremely negative reaction. The fact is that color revolutions deprive Moscow of its reliance on corrupt authorities, finally removing former Russian colonies from political influence. Moreover, Moscow's reaction to democratic successes in its neighbors is a kind of test of the state of democracy in Russia itself.

 

  Given the above, the hasty and somewhat unexpected signing of the Treaty on Alliance Relations between Russia and Uzbekistan becomes understandable. In addition to the now-traditional generalities about combating international terrorism, it also provides for the deployment of Russian troops in the event of aggression by a third state. It's difficult to imagine that any neighbor, much less one on another continent, is planning aggression against Uzbekistan. Most likely, any move by the domestic opposition would be interpreted as aggression. The presence of international terrorists in Uzbekistan would immediately be announced, as happened in Chechnya, and a Russian soldier, fulfilling his international duty, would once again occupy the country. History remembers similar mutual assistance treaties between the Soviet Union and the Baltic states, which resulted in the latter losing their independence. But while those treaties were imposed by force, in this case, it represents a mutually beneficial deal between the Uzbek dictator, fearful of losing power, and a country increasingly reclaiming its imperial status. This treaty cannot be called international in any way, as it is an agreement between Russia and one man – Islam Karimov. Fear of an impending color revolution is the main reason that pushed Karimov to commit such a vile act against his people and his country. By signing the treaty, Karimov not only betrayed the Uzbek people but also transformed himself from the president of an independent country into a puppet, from which Putin can henceforth do whatever he pleases. It is no coincidence that, according to the text of the treaty, it remains in force until 12 months from the date on which one party notifies the other in writing of its intention to terminate it. Thus, Russia has ample time to turn the political situation in its favor, even to the point of replacing one puppet with another.

 

  A similar situation could arise in Azerbaijan. But if the Azerbaijani president, like Karimov, seeks to base his power in Moscow, then complications are inevitable due to the Karabakh conflict, in which Russia traditionally supports the Armenian side, and a mutual assistance treaty with Russia, as signed by Karimov, is impossible. And although Karimov's example demonstrates that there is no limit to human baseness, it seems that the son of Comrade Heydar Aliyev will not take such a step. If he loses a fair fight in the re-election or subsequent elections and another clan comes to power, which is most likely for Azerbaijan, then in the worst-case scenario, Aliyev Jr. will end up abroad, perhaps even in Russia.

 

  Regardless of any domestic political events, the most important thing for all former Russian colonies is to maintain their independence. This is precisely what Washington's policy should be focused on, in order to prevent the possibility of a revival of the Russian Empire within its former borders. Alas, the current occupant of the White House is a lousy politician; he doesn't understand that "the East is a delicate matter." The brilliant Winston Churchill once noted a certain political naiveté among Americans in their relations with Russia, for which they later paid with the long Cold War. But while Roosevelt, who relied entirely on the Soviet Union as a sincere ally, can be accused of naivety, Bush Jr., who found an ally in Russia in the fight against the virtual global Islamic conspiracy, an ally that is handing the atomic baton to the Iranian obscurantists, can be called simply a madman.

 

  Instead of addressing the real cause of the September 11 tragedy—namely, actively addressing the Arab-Israeli conflict—cowboy Bush, riding a camel, began racing across the sands of Babylon, shouting "Give us Democracy!" so loudly that he scared the czars in the entire area to death, one of whom, terrified of this very democracy, chose to hide in the lion's mouth.

 

March 29, 2008

 

 

Страшная плата за крышу от розовых революций

 

Aлик Бахши

 

  

  Страшная плата за крышу от розовых революций

 

 

  

   Революция роз оказалась весьма заразной и вирус её, смертельный для правящей номенклатуры, осевшей во властных структурах бывших Союзных республик, включая и Россию, неумолимо распространяется по всему посткоммунистическому пространству с Запада на Восток. За сравнительно короткое время вирус поразил Украину, Грузию, Киргизию, выметя из анналов власти, зависимую от Кремля и погрязшую в коррупции партократию. Судя по политической ситуации, вирус проник в Азербайджан и Узбекистан. Однако, видимо, в этих странах нет ещё достаточной питательной среды для его успешной продемократической деятельности. То же самое можно сказать и о России, в которой, несмотря на наличие демократических партий, вирус бессилен и не потому, что государственная власть прячется от народа за высокими стенами Кремля, а потому, что значительная часть русского народа имеет стойкий иммунитет против демократической "заразы". Именно поэтому среди лидеров демократических партий нет представителей русской национальности. (Более детально об этом в моей статье "Народная судьба или каждому сверчку свой шесток".) Иммунитет этот объясняется традиционным для русского раболепием перед чиновником любого ранга и великодержавным имперским мировозрением. И пока этот иммунитет присутствует в народе буквально на генетическом уровне, никакая разновидность демократического вируса для Кремлёвской власти не страшна. Как следствие, власть в Российской империи может быть не иначе, как только тоталитарной. Империя и Демократия вещи несовместимые!

    

    Иная ситуация в бывших Прибалтийских советских колониях. Там народы Литвы, Латвии и Эстонии обрели национальную свободу и демократию одновременно как само собой разумеющиеся и неотъемлемые составляющие современного общества. Цветные революции происшедшие на Украине и Грузии похоже навсегда ввели их народы в правовое поле демократии. Единственно, что угрожает этим странам, это потеря территориальной целостности, ибо Кремль не применёт использовать непростую демографическую ситуацию в восточной части Украины и в Крыму, с большой концентрацией русского населения, ну и конечно, чрезвычайно сложные межнациональные приблемы в Грузии. Прорыв демократии в Киргизии в самом центре Азии можно отнести к неожиданому феномену, a насколько это серьёзно, вопреки местному менталитету, покажет время. Что касается положения с демократией в остальных, ставших независимыми, советских республиках, то оно почти не претерпело никаких существенных изменений и их демократизации мешает традиционная для Востока клановая основа власти.

 

   Что показательно для всех цветных революций, так это крайне негативная реакция Москвы. Дело в том, что цветные революции лишают Москву опоры на коррумпированную власть, окончательно уводя из под политического влияния бывшие колонии России. Более того, реакция Москвы на успехи демократии у соседей, это своего рода тест на состояние демократии в самой России.

  

   С учётом вышеизложенного, становится понятным столь поспешное и где-то неожиданное подписание Договора о союзнических отношениях между Россией и Узбекистаном, в котором, кроме традиционных на сегодняшний день общих фраз о противостоянии международному терроризму, предусматривается введение русских войск в случае агрессии со стороны третьего государства. Трудно предположить, что кто-то из соседей и тем более из пределов другого материка планирует агрессию против Узбекистана, скорее всего за агрессию будет принят любой шаг внутренней оппозиции. Тут же будет объявлено о появлении в Узбекистане международных террористов, как это имело место в Чечне, и русский солдат, выполняя свой интернациональный долг, вновь оккупирует страну. История помнит подобные договора о взаимопомощи между Советским союзом и Прибалтийскими государствами, в результате которых последние потеряли свою независимость. Но если тогда договора были навязаны силой, то в данном случае это обоюдно выгодная сделка между узбекским диктатором, боящимся потерять власть и страной всё более возращающей себе статус империи. Договор этот международным назвать никак нельзя, потому что это договор между Россией и одним человеком - Исламом Каримовым. Страх перед грядущей цветной революцией является главной причиной подтолкнувшей Каримова на столь низкий поступок по отношению к своему народу и своей стране. Поставив подпись на договоре, Каримов не только предал узбекский народ, но и из статуса президента независимой страны перевёл себя в разряд марионетки, с которой отныне Путин может делать всё, что ему заблагорассудиться. Недаром, согласно тексту договора, он остаётся в силе до истечения 12 месяцев со дня, когда одна из сторон в письменной форме уведомит другую о своём намерении прекратить его действие. Таким образом, у России вполне достаточно времени, чтобы развернуть политическую ситуацию в выгодное направление, причём вплоть до замены одной марионетки другой.

  

    Аналогичная картина может возникнуть в Азербайджане. Но, если президент Азербайджана, подобно Каримову, будет искать опору своей власти в Москве, то в этом случае непременно предвидятся осложнения из-за Карабахского конфликта, в котором Россия традиционно поддерживает армянскую сторону, и договор о взаимопомощи с Россией в том виде, в каком он был подписан Каримовым, невозможен. И, хотя на примере товарища Каримова, видно, что нет пределу человеческой низости, думается, что сын товарища Гейдара Алиева на такой шаг не пойдёт. Если он в честной борьбе проиграет на повторных или следующих выборах и к власти придёт другой клан, что вероятнее всего для Азербайджана, то в худшем случае Алиев-младший окажется за границей, возможно даже в России.

  

 

   Kакие бы внутренние политические события не происходили, самое главное для всех бывших российских колоний, - это не потерять независимость. Именно на это должна быть ориентирована политика Вашингтона, дабы пресечь возможможность возрождения Российской империи в её былых границах. Увы, нынешний хозяин Белого дома политик никудышный, ему невдомёк, что "Восток - дело тонкое". Гениальный У.Черчиль в своё время отмечал у американцев присутствие некоей политической наивности во взаимотношениях с Россией, за что потом и пришлось расплачиваться долгим периодом Холодной войны. Но если Рузвельта, всецело пологавшегося на Советский Союз как на искреннего союзника, и можно упрекнуть в наивности, то Буша-младшего, нашедшего себе союзника, в лице России, в деле борьбы с виртуальным всемирным исламским заговором, союзника передающего в руки иранских мракобесов атомную дубинку, можно назвать просто чистым безумцем.

  

   Вместо того, чтобы искоренить действительную причину трагедии 11 сентября, a именно, активно заняться разрешением арабо-израильского конфликта, ковбой Буш, оседлав верблюда, принялся носиться по пескам Вавилона с кличем "Даёшь Демократию!" Да так громко, что насмерть перепугал вo всей округе товарищей царьков, один из которых со страху перед этой самой демократией предпочёл спрятаться в пасти льва.

 

 

  29.03.2008