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“The Azerbaijani authorities keep a strange silence about the unprecedented escape of the whole family of Azerbaijanis to Armenia,” Azerbaijani News Agency reports noting that 39-year-old Azerbaijani with his wife and three children appealed to the Armenian authorities on the Armenian-Georgian border asking for political asylum.

The official Baku doesn’t comment on reports released by the Armenian mass media that the family had to run away from the country because harassments towards the wife of Javit Orujev who is of Armenian descent were carried out.

The attempts of Turan to get information from the Azerbaijani authorities how such kind of thing could have happened have so far failed. None of the Ministries of Azerbaijan (The Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) gave comments about the measures being taken in this situation.

It is reported in the article that the migration experts state that if a citizen lives the country, he loses his permanent residence status but cannot be deprived of citizenship automatically. At the same time international organizations would appeal to Azerbaijan asking about the family of Orujevs.

“Note that one of the high cards of the official propaganda of Azerbaijan is that the country is tolerant and patient where there is no religious or ethnic intolerance,” Turan reads.

“The authorities continuously speak about peaceful coexistence of Armenians in Azerbaijan the number of which equal to 15-30 thousand. Nevertheless, the fact that the citizens of Azerbaijan have decided to ask for asylum in Armenia speaks about extreme dissatisfaction with their own government,” Turan states.

As the News agency notes, so far many people whose rights have been violated in Azerbaijan announced about their intentions to seek asylum in Armenia

On 31st of January, 2014 the Press Centre of National Security Service of Armenia reported that on 29th of January a citizen of Azerbaijan, Baku resident Javit Orujev appealed the checkpoint of Bagratashen (Armenia-Georgia border) and asked for political asylum for himself, his wife and three young children. He explained his decision by the fact that the Azerbaijani authorities carried out persecutions against him because his wife Roya Mirzoeva, resident of Baku is of Armenian descent.

Unable to withstand inhuman oppressions, the pressure of Azerbaijani special services and realizing how dangerous the situation is for himself and his family Orujev made an unsuccessful attempt to settle in one of the European countries, but after he was deported back to Baku the pressure by Azerbaijani special services increased even more.

Caught in such a desperate situation and feeling the real danger that threatened his family Javit Orujev appealed to the authorities of Armenia with a request for political asylum.