What is "azeris"

Usage examples of "azeris".

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.

Will the disaffected Azeri Turks of Iran, accounting for as much as 25 percent of the country’s population, one day join their fellow Azeris in former-Soviet Azerbaijan?

The Armenians, likewise, fight the Azeris not because the latter are Moslems, but because they are Turks, related to the same Turks who massacred Armenians in 1915.

He clamored for the expul­sion of all the “blacks,” the popular Russian way of refer­ring to Armenians, Georgians, Azeris, and others from the south, many of whom were known to be among the richest of the criminal profiteers.

For example, the fifteen million Azeris in the northern provinces of Iran.

The Ossetians and Ingush, the Ossetians and the Georgians, the Abkhazians and the Georgians, the Checkens and the Cossacks, the Chechens and the Laks, the Azeris and the Lezgins.

The Os-setians and Ingush, the Ossetians and the Georgians, the Abkhazians and the Georgians, the Checkens and the Cossacks, the Chechens and the Laks, the Azeris and the Lezgins.

Nobody gives a tinker's fuck about Azeris kicking seven kinds of shit out of Armenians, and nobody cares which particular bunch of pigs gets their noses into the Brussels trough, but they really would appreciate being told why your boyfriend topped himself so messily, or what it feels like to be a couple of millimetres away from death at the point of a rapist's carving knife.