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In Azerbaijan, both the average citizens and the media try to resemble the Turks. In addition to the pure linguistic problem, it is, first of all, a psychological and social problem, Meydan TV website writes.

But does Turkey deserve the Azerbaijanis’ love, trust and brotherly attitude to such an extent? In his time, Heydar Aliyev voiced the thesis “one nation, two states” referring to the new political relations between Turkey and Azerbaijan, a phrase initially denoting the Germans separated by the Berlin wall.

“Throughout the history, the Azerbaijanis have not seen brotherhood from the Turks, but just the opposite, betrayal, venality, meanness. Moreover, this has had a systematic character, rather than occasional,” Meydan TV writes pointing to a few examples.

1. In the 15th century, the Ottoman Empire destroyed the Safavid State using cannonry purchased from Europe. The Turk “brothers” were also those exterminating the people.
2. 400 hundred years after the Ottomans’ attack, the Turks allowed the Red Army to enter Baku. Ataturk did not just fail to protect the Azerbaijanis, but he also lied and “sold them out” to the Russians. He wrote to Lenin that he would shut his eyes to the invasion into Azerbaijan. A few years later, he issued a decree about deporting from his country M. Rasulzade, the symbol of Azerbaijan’s independence, who had fled to Turkey from Moscow. The Azerbaijanis, who ran away to Turkey from the Bolsheviks, were shot on the border on Ataturk’s instruction.
3. The killed Azerbaijanis also became the victims of the Ottoman Empire policy in 1918. The modern heirs of Ottomanism never speak about that. Moreover, they use every convenient occasion to blackmail Azerbaijan with opening the border with Armenia.
4. The Turks never speak about the events in Khojalu on international platforms. Over the recent years, they use the topic only in their own interests, when they have to give some response to the international community regarding the events of 1915.
5. Turkey, rather than Iran, is the first to speak out against voicing the issue of “the Southern Azerbaijan” in the international arena. By this, Ankara makes clear to Baku that the issue should be forgotten once and for all, as it can become a precedent for the Kurds. The same is with the Karabakh issue, Turkey supports Azerbaijan only out of the concern of not letting this become a precedent for the Kurds.

“During Elchibey’s rule, Demirel even failed to provide two helicopters for evacuating the women and children from the zone of military conflict. He told the local press that helping Azerbaijan, Turkey would have to face the ‘Red Army.’ Later, Mesut Yilmaz, the prime minister of Turkey, determined Turkey’s ‘brotherly’ attitude towards Azerbaijan exceptionally out of geopolitical concerns,” the website notes.

It is not clear what else links these two nations except for the ethnic affinity, the website stresses. “If Turkey is our elder brother, then this is a brother who cuts the saving rope and buries us. Such brother gets a blow on the nape in the fairy tales. Still we forgive them another time, pledge loyalty and involve them into international projects,” the website points.

To sum up, the author of the article notes that for the Azerbaijanis, Turkey is nothing better than Russia, the Turkish culture is nothing better than the Russian one, and the Turkish language is nothing better than the Russian.