Leader of the International Association to Fight Unfounded Armenian Allegations (ASIM-DER) Goksel Gulbey announced that 35,000 Armenians still live in Azerbaijan.
He said that until the 1992 war over Karabakh, since Armenia and Azerbaijan still weren’t independent, there were many marriages between Azerbaijanis and Armenians.
“After Russia supported the Armenian army and volunteer forces in occupying Karabakh in 1992, and after they massacred the population, the two nations split from one another.”
According to Gulbey, the Armenians living in Azerbaijan went back to live in their homeland- Armenia- but Armenian women who married Azerbaijani men and had children with them remained. They still continue to live in Azerbaijan.
The leader of ASIM-DER, using claims from several sources, said that the number of such families is 35,000.
According to him, there are officials in Azerbaijan who are Armenian on their mother’s side. Gulbey brought this to Azerbaijan’s attention and emphasized that they need to follow the issue so that children of such families no longer hold official positions.
The same situation also exists in Turkey. There are 100,000 Armenians in Turkey, of which 70,000 are citizens of Armenia who are there as migrants. Mostly women go to take care of children for Turkish families as work.
“We want to inform our friends that people who have Armenian blood meet their relatives in Georgia and Russia.”
Kentgazetesi