Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

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Erdogan and Aliyev. Illustration: Tamar Shvelidze/OC Media

Opinion | Azerbaijan’s cooling relations with Turkey

•5 min read

Bahruz Samadov submitted this article shortly before his arrest on 21 August. He was charged with treason on 23 August, and could face 12–20 years in prison or a life sentence if found guilty. Despite long being ‘brotherly’ nations, the Israel-Gaza war appears to have exacerbated existing tensions between Turkey and Azerbaijan, potentially pushing the two countries apart irrevocably. In recent months, relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey have been uncharacteristically cool. To observers

Nikol Pashinyan (left) and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Picture via Newsinfo.am

Armenia

‘Positive signals’ for Armenia-Turkey relations

by Ani Avetisyan

•2 min read

Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have made statements that appear to express their willingness to eventually restore diplomatic relations between the two countries. ‘Armenia has received some positive signals from the Turkish side for the establishment of peace in the region’, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in a 27 August government meeting. On August 29, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan appeared to reply to the Armeni

Armenia

Taxes, corruption, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Turkey: Pashinyan’s vision for the ‘New Armenia’

by Shota Kincha

•10 min read

Having swept to power in a landslide electoral victory, the new government of revolutionary leader Nikol Pashinyan is now laying out its vision for a ‘New Armenia’ — with ambitious plans for peace and reform. Following the sweeping victory of his My Step bloc in 9 December’s snap parliamentary elections, Nikol Pashinyan vowed in a Facebook live stream the next day that his government would start to implement all their pre-electoral promises as soon as the new leadership settles in. Ear

Analysis

Analysis | Azerbaijan and Turkey: beyond ‘one nation, two states’

by Arzu Geybulla

•8 min read

With Turkey’s slide into authoritarianism, ‘one nation, two states’ rings truer than ever of Azerbaijan and Turkey. But below the politics, Turkey has changed for many Azerbaijanis — from a beacon of hope and gateway to the West to a symbol of their disenchantment. Turkey’s crackdown on ‘terrorism’ On 25 October, a group of eleven human rights defenders stood at their first court hearings on what international rights watchdogs have described as trumped up charges and politically moti

Buddhism

Kadyrov condemns assault on Buddhist man in Moscow

by OC Media

•2 min read

Chechen Head Ramzan Kadyrov has commented on the video, which shows a man dressed in traditional Buddhist attire being hit in the face by two males, presumably from the North Caucasus. The video has spread in social networks. The video titled ‘Daghestani peacekeepers “fighting” for justice in Myanmar on the streets of Moscow’ was uploaded in Russian social network VKontakte on 19 September. The 15-second-long video shows two men asking a person wearing characteristic attire whether he is