On July 9, United World International expert Mehmet Perinçek gave an interview to the Azerbaijani news outlet qazer.az on the recent developments in the Southern Caucasus. Perinçek commented on the recent elections in Armenia, Turkish-Russian cooperation and regional initiatives to reach lasting peace and stability. Below we document the interview as published by qazet.az. Peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Ankara-Moscow ...

On Sunday, the Armenian people elected a new parliament. Voter turnout was 49.4% and the Central Election Committee has announced the preliminary results yesterday. According to these, Nikol Pashinian’s governing Civil Contract party has obtained 53.92% of the votes, while the Armenian Alliance led by former President Robert Kocharian came second, receiving 21.1%. United World International expert Mehmet Perinçek commented ...

At a time when the world’s attention is focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, forces in the South Caucasus are trying to escalate the situation once again. This time, Western circles are planning to create clashes in the region via Armenia. The terms of the peace agreement signed after the 44-day Karabakh war are not being met: Armenia is reluctant to ...

The topic of the Zangezur corridor has resulted in heated discussions in Armenian and Azerbaijani society. It has increased tension in the already tense relations between the two countries. Last week, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev spoke again on the subject. Touching upon the terms of the peace agreement signed between the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia on November 10, ...

The 44-day war in the South Caucasus last year is still hotly debated, and it seems that it will on the agenda for many years to come. This is due to the fact that, along with restoring the historical and legal justice, this war also created new realities in the region. The Azerbaijani side won the 44-day war and the ...

The events in the South Caucasus and the recent coup attempt in Armenia cannot be understood in the framework of the past. The process is advancing very fast, and conditions and sides are changing very fast too. A new point of view and new tactics sometimes become necessary from one day to the other. We have examined the developments in ...

The Turkish-Russian Joint Monitoring Center, established within the scope of monitoring the ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh, began work on January 30. End of the Minsk Group era The establishment of the Monitoring Center points to the beginning of a new era in the South Caucasus and the Karabakh issue. This period puts an end to the Minsk Group process, which had ...

2020 has been a year that will be remembered for decades, even centuries. There might not be another year in which the worries and hopes of all the nations were so common. Billions of people’s lives have changed, people asked the same questions and had the same expectations at the same time around all seven seas. We have gathered some ...

At a joint news conference with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on December 10, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Turkey’s initiative of “6-country regional cooperation platform” for the post-war era of the recent Karabakh conflict. Erdogan said he had suggested to Russian President, Vladimir Putin a proposal to establish a regional partnership including Turkey, Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Georgia and Armenia. ...

Azerbaijan has crowned its own War of Independence with a decisive victory, managing to take back the territories lost and had been occupied for almost 30 years after years of war in the short time period of a month and a half. As a result, this victory was accepted and documented by both sides of the conflict. Of course, the ...