During the war, the Azeri armed forces were also aided by Turkish military advisers, and Russian, Ukrainian, Chechen and Afghan mercenaries.

* 1992 – Nagorno-Karabakh War: Khojaly Massacre: Armenian armed forces open fire on Azeri civilians at a military post outside the town of Khojaly leaving hundreds dead.

Other considerations of the rules of international law, particularly those prohibiting the use of force and the acquisition of territory, are also relevant in that the Soviet authorities and, subsequently, the Azerbaijani government applied use of military and paramilitary force in ethnic cleansing initiatives like Operation Ring, while the Armenian community of Nagorno-Karabakh established militia forces to resist further pogroms and defend the civilian population by repelling Azeri forces.

The Armenians claimed that the attack was in response to cross-border shelling of Armenian villages by Azeri forces from Nakhchivan.

In the meantime, in response to Georgia's alleged assistance to the Azeri nationalist rebellion in Ganja, Soviet forces attempted to penetrate Georgian territory, but were repelled by Kvinitadze in brief border clashes at the Red Bridge.

During these events, the Armenians of Syunik were massacred " without distinction of sex or age " by Azeri forces.

Less than six months later, in September 1918 Enver Pasha's Ottoman-led Army of Islam, supported by local Azeri forces, recaptured Baku and subsequently killed an estimated 10, 000 to 20, 000 ethnic Armenians.

* Prior to the creation of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the bulk of the fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh on the Azeri side was conducted by the post-Soviet OMON units and irregular forces.

This included the defence of the village of Khojaly by the force of Azeri OMON and volunteers against the Armenian insurgents and the Russian Army forces prior and during the Khojaly massacre on 25 February 1992 ; most of the group involved died during the ensuing slaughter in which several hundred of Azeri civilians died.

With the start of Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1988 Shusha became the most important Azeri stronghold in Karabakh, from where Azeri forces constantly shelled the capital Stepanakert.

On May 9, 1992 the town was captured by Armenian forces and the Azeri population fled.

Indeed, neither our report nor that of Memorial includes any evidence to support the argument that Azerbaijani forces obstructed the flight of, or fired on Azeri civilians ”.

However, Human Rights Watch also made clear, that all sides have committed violations of the rules of war and added that “ both sides shelled each other's cities and towns and committed atrocities .“ Estimating the number of the civilians killed in the massacre, Human Rights Watch stated that " there are no exact figures for the number of Azeri civilians killed because Karabakh Armenian forces gained control of the area after the massacre ".

As the ingilo Georgians claimed the Azeri police forces had forcefully took away the books from the Georgian schoolchildren.

Returning north they took 200, 000 slaves from Caucasus, including tens of thousands of Azeri Turks from the districts of Shirvan, Mugan, and Daghestan.

Polish civilians murdered by Waffen-SS troops ( Azeri Waffen SS Volunteer Formations # Ostmuselmanische SS-Regiment | SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger ) in Warsaw Uprising, August 1944.

* Some monarchs were known by a contraction of the kingdom's name with shah, such as Khwarezmshah, ruler of the short-lived Muslim realm of Khwarezmia, or the more modest Azeri Shirvanshah of Shirvan ( later a minor khanate ).

The Azeri government gets regular updates from Israel regarding Azeri Jews in Israel, who are plagued by unemployment, crime, and other social issues as new immigrants in Israel.

Azerbaijani or Azeri ( Azərbaycanca, Azərbaycan dili ) is a language belonging to the Turkic language family, spoken in southwestern Asia by the Azerbaijani people, primarily in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran.

Robert Bevan writes: “ The Azeri campaign against the Armenian enclave of Nagorno Karabakh which began in 1988 was accompanied by cultural cleansing that destroyed the Egheazar monastery and 21 other churches .”

The Azeri population, meanwhile, increased substantially with both a higher birth rate and immigration from Armenia ( going from 85 % in 1926 to 96 % by 1979 ).

According to Azeri Colonel Azer Rustamov, in 1992, " hundreds of Chechen volunteers rendered us invaluable help in these battles led by Shamil Basayev and Salman Raduyev ".

The words were written by the poet Ahmad Javad, and the music was composed by Azeri composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov.

Ghazals were written by the Persian mystics and poets Rumi ( 13th century ) and Hafiz ( 14th century ), the Azeri poet Fuzûlî ( 16th century ), as well as Mirza Ghalib ( 1797 – 1869 ) and Muhammad Iqbal ( 1877 – 1938 ), both of whom wrote ghazals in Persian and Urdu.

It incorporates designs from each of the three major groups that combined in the Transcaucasian SFSR, the Armenians, Azeri and Georgians, and unusually features Islamic art and communist elements side by side.

According to Thomas de Waal, the dispute over Syunik resulted in the ethnic cleansing of region's local Azeri minority through direct military action by Armenian guerilla commanders Andranik Ozanian, Rouben Ter Minassian and later Garegin Nzhdeh.

Resentments were fuelled in 1992 by the resettlement of 105, 000 Azeri refugees from the Karabakh conflict on Lezgin lands and by the forced conscription of Lezgins to fight in the conflict.

A report which was published by the Committee on Foreign Affairs contained a statement by Bryan Ardouny, Executive Director of the Armenian Assembly of America, who stated that " The Azerbaijani government has also consistently failed to condemn Safarov, an Azeri military officer who in 2003 brutally murdered an Armenian participant at a NATO Partnership for Peace military training exercise in Budapest, Hungary.

On December 14, 1990, the Azeri cultural and educational society for studying and development of Tati language, history and ethnography was founded by the board of the Ministry of justice of the Azerbaijan SSR.

* 1920 – Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi ( Nagorno Karabakh ).

Turkey has also seen documented folk music and recorded popular music produced in the ethnic styles of Greek, Armenian, Albanian, Polish, Azeri and Jewish communities, among others.

The main languages spoken are Arabic, Neo-Aramaic, Kurdish, South Azeri, Shabaki, and Armenian.

* The Doumbek is a goblet shaped drum used in Arabic, Jewish, Assyrian, Persian, Balkan, Greek, Armenian, Azeri and Turkish music.

By 1914, the Armenian population had decreased slightly to 40 % while the Azeri population increased to roughly 60 %.

One of them, the great Armenian musician Sayat Nova, served as a court musician of the King Erekle the Second, and was composing songs in Georgian, Armenian, and Azeri languages.

*: On September 3, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued the following statement: " In Russia, which is the co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, received reports with deep concern regarding the clemency of Baku Azeri serviceman Ramil Safarov, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the commission of the murder of an Armenian officer with an extreme atrocity in Hungary in the 2004, as well as regarding the preceded decision of the Hungarian authorities to extradite him to Azerbaijan.

The population is mainly mainly Azeri Turkish, with Kurdish, Assyrian Christian, and Armenian minorities.

The population of Urmia is mainly Azerbaijani people who speak the Azeri language, with Kurdish, Assyrian Christian, and Armenian minorities.

* Kochari dance-Pontic variant, Azeri variant, Armenian variant

During these clashes thousands of people from both the Armenian and Azeri sides were killed, with more than 7, 000 houses burned and Shusha virtually cleansed of its Armenian population.

While the population of the town is barely half of the pre-war number, and the demographic of the town has changed from mostly Azeri to completely Armenian, a slow recovery can be seen.