Ադրբեջանի ցեղասպանական մտադրությունը

• On January 10, 2023, President Aliyev told journalists that 2023 is “the last chance” for Armenia, because “2024 is coming, and then Russia's peacekeeping mission ends in 2025. They need to see a little further than their nose.”

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• In a September 19, 2022, Facebook post which he later deleted, Tural Ganjaliyev, a member of the Azerbaijani parliament purporting to represent Stepanakert, wrote: “The Goycha-Zangazur Republic [encompassing the Armenian provinces of Syunik and Gegharkunik] will be a vital element in achieving a just peace and stability in the region. Long Live the Goycha-Zangazur Republic!” 

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• On September 15, 2022, Turkish parliamentarian Mustafa Destici stated at a press conference in Turkey: “We say to the Armenian administration, make up your mind. I remind you once again that the Turkish nation has the power to erase Armenia from history and geography, and that they stand at the limit of our patience.” 

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• On August 12, 2022, President Aliyev stated during an interview on Azeri public television that “Armenians living in Karabakh will not have any status, independence or advantages.”

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• On June 22, 2022, President Aliyev stated: “If Armenia still clings to its old tactics in the process of demarcation and tries to prolong it, it will regret it. We are closely watching the actions of revanchist forces in Armenia. Let them know that too. My words are written at the top of that mountain: ‘The Iron Fist is in place; let no one forget about that.’”

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• On August 16, 2021, President Aliyev made the following remark during an interview with CNN Turk: “Armenia’s new Minister of Defense made very reckless statements that if the Azerbaijani side trespassed Armenia’s border by one centimeter, then they would open fire. In other words, it seems that the Second Karabakh War has not been a lesson for everyone yet. If this is the case, then we are ready to teach them another lesson.” 

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• On July 22, 2021, President Aliyev stated: “The Azerbaijani people are rightly unhappy to see statements … made in France and America to the effect that the conflict must be resolved. I am again telling them that I, the president of Azerbaijan, have already resolved that issue, period. There is no Nagorno-Karabakh.”

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• In an October 4, 2020 televised address, President Aliyev stated: “We are driving them away like dogs! Azerbaijani soldiers drive them away like dogs!"

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• In 2020, Nurlan Ibrahimov, the Public Relations Manager for the Qarabag FK Soccer Club, one of the most popular sports teams in Azerbaijan, made the following statement on social media: “We must kill all Armenians – children, women and the elderly. We need to kill them without making a distinction. No regrets. No compassion.” 

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• On January 29, 2015, President Aliyev tweeted that “Armenia is not even a colony, it is not even worthy of being a servant."
   

• In 2004, Azerbaijani Defense Minister Safar Abiyev stated that “Within the next 25 years there will be no state of Armenia in the South Caucasus. These people have no right to live in this region. Modern Armenia was built on historical Azerbaijani lands. I think that in 25-30 years its territory will again come under Azerbaijan’s jurisdiction.”