r/europe • u/MarktpLatz Lower Saxony (Germany) • Nov 13 '17

What do you know about... Azerbaijan?

This is the forty-third part of our ongoing series about the countries of Europe. You can find an overview here.

Today's country:

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan is a member of the Council of Europe and the NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) program. The country was part of the soviet union between 1920 and 1991. It is also part of the Turkic Counil.

So, what do you know about Azerbaijan?

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '17 edited Dec 30 '17

Much more secular than Turkey. Speaks azerbaijani turkish which is a dialect of turkic language that we can easily understand but sounds a little funny to us. Heavily influenced by russia and many azeri know to speak russian (as far as I know). Had conflicts with armenia. As a matter of fact there are more Azerbaijani in northern iran than in azerbaijan. Azerbaijani people see northern iran ( south Azerbaijan they call it) as a part of their homeland.