Is Azerbaijan a terrorist state?

There are many reasons for Armenians to think that our neighboring country wants our death and therefore is a terroristic state. First is the historical memory, second is its warm acceptance of international terroristic groups sponsored by Turkey to fight by the Azeri side, and the third is that they don’t really hide it.

Armenian side always put a differentiation between military-political leadership of Azerbaijan and its people but it was never mutual because of the extremely high level of Armenophobia in their society.

The long-rooted Armenophobia in Azerbaijan is now at its peak following the ongoing war. Just a few examples in terms of how it progressed throughout history.

• 1918 Baku massacres (the same year Azerbaijan as a state was founded before they were called Caucasian Tatars/Turks)
• 1988 Sumgait pogroms leaving 450 Armenians brutally killed and their houses robbed.
• 1990 Baku pogroms. There were 200.000 Armenians living in Baku, but the crowds on the streets were chanting “Baku without Armenians.” Now, not a single Armenian lives in Azerbaijan.
• 1992 Maragha massacres. The civilian population was cruelly killed and slaughtered. They were burning people alive, beheading, looting their homes, and then burning them. The witness of it became Baroness Caroline Cox who actively spoke up about it.
• Case of Ramil Safarov in 2004. During NATO training in Hungary, he approached Armenian lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, asleep in his room, attacked him with an axe, and killed him. He was not only justified in Azerbaijan but also very festively welcomed and promoted in his position. He became a national hero.
• 2016 April War — cruel killings of civilians in Talish in an ISIS-like manner (one elderly couple’s ears were cut, an Armenian soldier was beheaded).
• 2020 July pro-war demonstrations were held in Baku, during which thousands of protestors demanded the Azeri Government fully deploy the army, chanting ‘Death to Armenians,’ which it eventually did on September 26, 2020.
• 2020 September till today, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Azeri military-political leadership together with terrorists from Syria and Libya sponsored by Turkey.

Examples of common Azeri behavior

Since September 27, when the Turkish-Azerbaijani-Terrorist forces started massive aggression against the Republic of Artsakh's peaceful Armenian population (also known as Nagorno Karabagh) targeting the Republic of Armenian’s civilian infrastructures too, Azerbaijan set a new record in terms of hate speech towards Armenians. Ilham Aliyev, who inherited the throne from his father Heydar Aliyev in 2003, intoxicated its people so much that they are ready to torture, severely kill, and slaughter any ethnic Armenian.

He doesn't even hide it in his speeches addressed to the inner public. On October 20, he vowed that the “ugly and savage enemy” would be removed from Artsakh, adding: “We have shown them the place they deserve. We will drive them out of our lands! We will drive them out! They have neither conscience nor morality. They don’t even have the brain.” He continuously insults Armenians in every possible way, like calling them rats or dogs. This is classic fascism.

In front of international media, Aliyev continuously lies saying that thousands of Armenians live a dignified life in Azerbaijan. He claims that they want to live peacefully with Armenians in Artsakh. At the same time, from day one of the war, Azeris targeted and continue to target civilian infrastructures of Artsakh (e.g. Ghazanchetsots Church and Iranian Mosque in Shushi, Martuni Hospital, Hospital in Stepanakert, Maternity Hospital, schools, kindergartens, burning forests with phosphorus ammunition). All because Azeris want Artsakh without Armenians.

November 4, 2020: Civilian casualties and losses from the Armenian side

People must realize that anyone, no matter national or ethnic origin, ready to kill/slaughter children, women, elderly people, is a terrorist. The military-political leadership of states that welcome such approaches directly declare their states of being terroristic states. People who agree with their military-political leaders, support them and are ready to kill/slaughter peaceful civilians are terrorists.

There is more than enough evidence to claim that Azerbaijan is a terrorist state.