What is "azeri"

Usage examples of "azeri".

The short wave foreign service broadcast in Arabic, Azeri Turkish, English, French, German, Hebrew, Kurdish, Persian, Russian, Spanish, and Urdu.

At the same time they definitely have not supported Muslims advocating Turkish-modeled moderate independence, like the Chechens, the original Tajik opposition or the Azeri government under President Abulfaz Elchibey.

Azerbaijan, mixing old Azeri melodies with European forms and harmonies.

A reference to the conflict between secessionist ethnic Armenians living in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave of Azerbaijan, and the Azeri government.

Eight Guardswomen were standing outside the door to the apartments, and one of them, Yurith Azeri, was an excellent conversationalist, an educated woman though silent on her past.

Yurith Azeri, was an excellent conversationalist, an educated woman though silent on her past.

So we are equally despised by the Iraqis, the Iranians, the Chinese, Russians, Kazakhs, Armenians, Azeris, and so on.

And because many of the communist overlords in Baku were not only Russians but Azeris too, Azerbaijan suffered a disorienting tyranny that divided the inhabitants rather than uniting them (as Ottoman tyranny had united the Armenians).

Vodka toasts, I was repeatedly told, were the only Russian custom that the Azeris had permanently absorbed into their culture.

As with the Kurds, though in a different way—these things are ever so subtle—the Azeris were more olive-complexioned and more Aryan-featured than the Turks of Turkey.

Were the Azeris sufficiently repressed in Iran to create a sense of future state identity?

It is that state of geographic innocence that Reza and other Azeris wanted to return to.

Turkic-speaking Azeris account for as much as a quarter of the citizenry, and this does not include other Turkic sectors of the population, such as the Turkomens in the northeast, near the former Soviet border, and the Qhashqha’is in the southwest, near Shiraz and the Persian Gulf.

Whether Turkey is able to establish an oil pipeline through the land of its historic enemy, Armenia, and whether northern, former-Soviet Azerbaijan with its untapped oil reserves can become an economic magnet for the millions of Azeris inside Iran will affect the future of Iran and regional trade more than anything likely to occur between Israel and the Arabs, or in the Balkans.

Reza, the photographer friend with whom I had traveled in Baku, had told me that “the Persians are secretly jealous of the Azeris.