Supporting the army
A Support Rally in Riga for Counter-Offensive Operations by the Azerbaijani Army
Samir Azizov, a 3rd year student at Riga Technical University initiated the ‘Silent March’, a support rally for the counter-offensive operations by the Azerbaijani Army, in Riga, the capital of Latvia. Students in Riga and members of the Azerbaijani diaspora actively participated in the march.
The participants sported Azerbaijani and Turkish flags and posters, depicting mottos such as ‘Karabakh is Azerbaijan’, ‘We want our lands back’, ‘We stand by our army’, and others.
Representatives of the Turkish diaspora also joined the support rally. Samir Azizov, the organizer of the event, emphasized in an interview to Latvian media that the Azerbaijani army was fighting on its own land and that our struggle was for Azerbaijan’s rightful cause.
Elnur Rahimov, a Latvian member of the Coordinating Council of Azerbaijanis in the Baltic countries, then gave an interview and offered extensive information about Armenia’s military aggression against Azerbaijan.