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Authorities said Ryan recruited Mamedli and arranged for him to meet French intelligence agents, who allegedly tasked him with recruiting Azerbaijanis and Russians at a Moscow university where he studied.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

This was not the first such expulsion in this conflict: in the 1990s over 500,000 Azerbaijanis were displaced.

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2025

Azerbaijanis call it Nagorno-Karabakh; Armenians call it Artsakh.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025

Valiyev is among the estimated 700,000 Azerbaijanis who fled or were forced out of the region they call Karabakh amid violence that flared beginning in 1988 and then grew into an outright war.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2023

Even the compact two millions and a half of Turkish-speaking Azerbaijanis will write letters only in Persian, and will not read a Turkish newspaper.

From Turkey: a Past and a Future by Toynbee, Arnold Joseph