Foreign media
WorldKorean online network that unites Koreans around the world has published an article entitled “Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, the seeds sown by the colonial policy of the former USSR.”
The author of the article is Oh, Eun-Kyung, Professor at South Korea’s Dongduk Women's University and Director of the Institute for Eurasian Turkic Studies.
Stating that the word “Nagorno-Karabakh” belong to the Azerbaijani language from the etymological point of view, the author points out that the signing of the Gulustan (1813) and Turkmenchay (1828) treaties resulted in the occupation of northern Azerbaijan by the Russian Empire. After that, Tsarist Russia artificially changed the demographic composition of the mountainous part of Karabakh by purposefully resettling Armenians in the Azerbaijani lands. As a result, in a short period of time, 75 settlements of Azerbaijanis were destroyed and erased from the earth.
The article also notes that Nagorno-Karabakh belonged to the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic established in 1918, and after Azerbaijan joined the former USSR, this region was granted the status of an autonomous region within the Azerbaijan SSR. The author underlines that on the eve of the USSR collapse, Armenia launched a new bloody campaign to capture Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh region. The author also presents the facts of the occupation of Azerbaijani territories and the Khojaly genocide committed by Armenian armed forces.