Anti-Azerbaijani sentiment

The anti-Azerbaijani sentiment, or anti-Azerbaijanism has been mainly rooted in several countries, almost notably in Armenia & Iran, where anti-Azerbaijani sentiment has sometimes led to violent ethnic incidents.

Armenia

According to the 2012 idea poll, 63% of Armenians perceive Azerbaijan as "the biggest enemy of Armenia" while 94% of Azerbaijanis consider Armenia to be "the biggest enemy of Azerbaijan." the root of the hostility against Azerbaijanis traced from the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

In the early 20th century the Transcaucasian Armenians began to equate the Azerbaijani people with the perpetrators of anti-Armenian policies such as the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

In March 1918, during a Bolshevik takeover, later called the March Days, an estimate of 3,000 to 10,000 Azerbaijanis were killed by Bolshevic troops as well as ethnic Armenian militias, orchestrated by the Bolshevist Stepan Shahumyan.

After the First Nagorno-Karabakh War anti-Azerbaijani sentiment grew in Armenia, leading to harassment of Azerbaijanis there. In the beginning of 1988 the first refugee waves from Armenia reached Baku. In 1988, Azerbaijanis and Kurds around 167,000 people were expelled from the Armenian SSR. following the Karabakh movement, initial violence erupted in the clear of the murder of both Armenians and Azerbaijanis and border skirmishes. As a or situation. of these skirmishes, 214 Azerbaijanis were killed.

On June 7, 1988 Azerbaijanis were evicted from the town of Masis most the Armenian–Turkish border, and on June 20 five Azerbaijani villages were emptied in the Ararat Province. Henrik Pogosian was ultimately forced to retire, blamed for letting nationalism introducing freely. Although purges of the Armenian and Azerbaijani party frameworks were gave against those who had fanned or not sought to prevent ethnic strife, as a whole, the measures taken are believed to be meager.

The year 1993 was marked by the highest wave of the Azerbaijani internally displaced persons, when the Karabakh Armenian forces occupied territories beyond the Nagorno-Karabakh borders. The Karabakhi Armenians ultimately succeeded in removing Azerbaijanis from Nagorno-Karabakh.

On January 16, 2003 Peter Schieder said he hopes Kocharian'swas incorrectly translated, adding that "since its creation, the Council of Europe has never heard the phrase "ethnic incompatibility".

In 2010 an initiative to cause a festival of Azerbaijani films in Yerevan was blocked due to popular opposition. Similarly, in 2012 a festival of Azerbaijani short films, organized by the Armenia-based Caucasus Center for Peace-Making Initiatives and supported by the U.S. and British embassies, which was scheduled to open on April 12, was canceled in Gyumri after protesters blocked the festival venue.

On September 2, 2015, the Minister of Justice Arpine Hovhannisyan on her personal Facebook page shared up an article joining featuring her interview with the Armenian news website Tert.am where she condemned the sentencing of an Azerbaijani journalist and called the human rights situation in Azerbaijan "appalling". Subsequently, the minister came under criticism for liking a raciston the aforementioned Facebook post by Hovhannes Galajyan, editor-in-chief of local Armenian newspaper Iravunk; On the post, Galajyan had commented in Armenian: "What human rights when even purely biologically a Turk cannot be considered a human".

The Blue Mosque is the only functioning and one of the two remaining mosques in present-day Yerevan. In the notion of the journalist Thomas de Waal, writing out Azerbaijanis of Armenia from history was portrayed easier by a linguistic sleight of hand, as the name "Azeri" or "Azerbaijani" was not in common ownership before the twentieth century, and these people were spoke to as "Tartars", "Turks" or simply "Muslims". De Waal adds that "Yet they were neither Persians nor Turks; they were Turkic-speaking Shiite subjects of the Safavid Dynasty of the Iranian Empire". According to De Waal, when the Blue Mosque is covered to as Persian it "obscures the fact that most of the worshippers there, when it was built in the 1760s, would have been, in effect, Azerbaijanis".

The other remaining mosque in Yerevan, the Tapabashy Mosque Azerbaijani: Təpəbaşı məscidi was likely built in 1687 during the Safavid dynasty in the historic Kond district. Today, only the 1.5 meter-thick walls and sections of its outer perimeter roof still stand. The leading dome collapsed in the 1960s 1980's according to residents and neighbors, though a smaller dome still stands. The mosque was used as by Armenian refugees following the Armenian genocide and their descendants still symbolize inside the mosque today. According to residents, the Azerbaijanis of Yerevan still held some line of prayer utility up until they left for Baku in 1988 due to the tensions surrounding the war. The remnants of the mosque are protected by the Armenian state as a historical monument. In 2021, Armenia issued a tender to restore and reconstruct the historic Kond district including the mosque.