Tag: Azerbaijan
Azeri Jewish grandmaster Teimour Radjabov wins chess championship and $60,000
Azeri-Jewish chess grandmaster Teimour Radjabov, 33, became emotional following his victory on Sunday in the final match of the Champions Chess Tour Airthings Masters online tournament, winning the $60,000 grand prize.
His opponent in the...
Will Turkish President Erdoğan send troops to Azerbaijan?
The latest round of fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh region continues to send ricochets across the Middle East. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday submitted a motion to parliament—a week after Russian President Vladimir...
Iran has ‘more to lose than to gain’ from Azerbaijan victory
As Iran moves military forces to its border with Azerbaijan, the Islamic Republic is watching the progress being made by Azerbaijani forces in their conquest of areas of Nagorno-Karabakh with mounting concern.
This comes despite...
How the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict could impact Israel’s regional strategic landscape
Over the last several weeks, Armenia and Azerbaijan have been engaged in an escalating conflict centered around a decades-long dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is internationally recognized as Azerbaijani territory but has illegally...
Iran and Armenia: Mutual support is a threat to Israel
The recent attack on Azerbaijan’s residential areas in the territories occupied by Armenia for the last 26 years has quickly spiraled away from the central claims of Baku about its national sovereignty and territorial...
‘Turkey stands and will continue to stand with our dear friend and brother, Azerbaijan’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a recent speech that Turkey stands with “brotherly country” Azerbaijan in its conflict with Armenia and expressed his hope that the fighting would continue until Nagorno-Karabagh was “liberated.”
In an...
Editor-in-chief of Turkish AKP mouthpiece: ‘Turkey is a global power—now it’s time for Azerbaijan...
In his Oct. 2 column titled “Turkey Is A Global Power. Now It’s Time For Azerbaijan To Rise. Iran Backing Armenia! What’s Tehran Afraid Of?” in Turkey’s AKP mouthpiece Yeni Şafak daily, the paper’s editor-in-chief İbrahim...
Rumblings of regional strife in the Caucasus could make its way to Israel
One of the most unexpected, lesser known and not often reported bilateral relationships is the ties between Israel and Azerbaijan. While both countries are small, Israel is constantly garnering global headlines and attention for...
Visiting the ‘Mountain Jews’ of Azerbaijan, one the world’s last remaining shtetls
Affectionately called “Mountain Jews,” the Jewish community of Qırmızı Qəsəbə (Red Village) in the Quba district of Azerbaijan is home to nearly half the Jews living in this Muslim-majority country. Believed to be the...
Argentina asks Azerbaijan to arrest Iranian suspect in 1994 AMIA bombing
Argentina is asking Azerbaijan to arrest an Iranian official visiting Baku in connection with the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires.
Alí Akbar Velayati, an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah...