Hurriyet Daily News Wednesday, July 20, 2011 İPEK YEZDANI

The head of the Foreign Policy Department in the Office of the Azerbaijani President has said Iran has offered to solve the Karabakh issue among regional states but this doesn’t seem...

Today's Zaman Thursday, July 14, 2011 YUSIF BABANLY

The last several years of ongoing negotiations regarding Nagorno-Karabakh have seen intense emotions brought to both sides of the conflict. Mediated by several countries within the Organization for...

Today's Zaman Thursday, July 07, 2011 ROVSHAN IBRAHIMOV

This year, 2011, is an important one for the entire former Soviet Union region. Twenty years ago the Soviet Union officially ceased to exist. A group of newly independent states appeared on the map...

The New York Times

Tuesday, May 31, 2011 ELLEN BARRY

BAKU, Azerbaijan — In a mostly empty Soviet-era building here on a recent morning, a 29-year-old woman pressed her eye against the scope of a sniper rifle, brown hair spilling over her shoulder, and...

Today's Zaman

Friday, May 27, 2011 ZAUR SHIRIYEV

In his influential book “The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century,” George Friedman uses a historical-comparative method of examining the world system to challenge people living in this...

Hurriyet Daily News Sunday, May 8, 2011 ELSHAN ABDULAZIMOV

For the last few years, the Azerbaijan government has implemented wide-ranging reforms to improve economic sustainability. The result of the macroeconomic reforms has been a more than threefold...

Huffpost World

Monday, April 25, 2011 AZEEM IBRAHIM

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to give a speech to a group of inspiring young people. The group was in fact a delegation of the First Convention of the Global Youth Movement for the Alliance of...

Today's Zaman Monday, April 18, 2011

Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkey have released a joint declaration which outlines cooperation in various fields, and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has stated that these three countries will expand regional...

The Jakarta Post Monday, April 18, 2011

While Azerbaijan may seem to have successfully established itself as an icon of tolerance and pluralism, the Muslim-majority country’s conflict with Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region has become a major...

Hurriyet Daily News Sunday, April 17, 2011

Iran and Turkey have opened a third border crossing at Kapıköy in eastern Turkey’s Van province, in what the foreign ministers of both countries called a symbol of friendship amid increased regional cooperation...

The Journal of Turkish Weekly Monday, 28 March 2011 ELNUR ASLANOV

Foreign policy is a strategic resource serving to develop the most fertile international environment for a country’s development. In general, when this resource is not being used to that...

Today's Zaman

Sunday , 27 February 2011 AMANDA PAUL

One of the most tragic consequences of conflict is the terrible impact it has on the lives of ordinary people. The 1988-1993 conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Azerbaijani province of...