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Meti Osmanoglu, an Azerbaijani scholar specialising in literary science, shared his memories about a dialogue between Armenian writer Levon Adyan, who was a member of the Union of Azerbaijani Writers and worked at the editorial board of the journal Literary Azerbaijan, and Azerbaijani translator and literary critic Abbas Abdulla, who was a specialist of literary science, Moderator.az writes.

“I remember Levon’s conversations with Abbas Abdulla, who told Levon, ‘Every Turk’s duty is to kill at least one Armenian.’ Levon, come on, I will kill you, too,” Osmanoglu said as cited by the website.

According to the Azerbaijani reports, the materials and stories of the local media have recently seen a rise of use of insults, obscene language and unpleasant expressions when covering Armenia and the Armenians. In 2014, the head of the Department of expertise, programming and analytics of the National Television and Radio Council of Azerbaijan, Tavakkul Dadashev, called on Azerbaijani media to go on using insults in the articles covering Armenian topics as much as possible.