🧵The Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity 🇦🇿Azerbaijan in the @UNESCO list:

🔹2020 –“NAR BAYRAMI”, traditional pomegranate festivity & culture.

🔹"Pomegranate Festival" is an annual festival in Oct /Nov in Azerbaijan. 1/
ich.unesco.org/en/RL/nar-bayr… 🔹2020 - @UNESCO inscribed "ART OF MINIATURE" on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of Azerbaijan.

🔹This art was emerged mainly as art of book illustration and devoted to scientific, historical and artistic works. 2/
ich.unesco.org/en/RL/art-of-m…

🧵🇦🇿 Multi-Religious, Secular Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijan is a country that practices multiculturalism, a country where people experience multiple religions, languages, and ethnicities every day.

☪️ Around 2000 Mosques
✝️ 13 Churches
✡️7 Synagogues
1/ 🟪✝️5 churches belong to the Orthodox community,4 churches belong to the Georgian Orthodox community,1 church belongs to the Lutheran,1 to the Catholic & 2 to the Alban-Udi religious community.

🟪✡️2 Jewish synagogues are in Baku,2 in Oghuz and 3 in the Red Settlement of Guba.2/

Upon leaving Iran🇮🇷 at the age of 16, my great grandfather left his entire family behind. Despite the fact that his father came to Baku for him, but he refused to return to where he was born.
He was South Azerbaijani who got married later to the German lady from Azerbaijan. 1/ Few years after escaping Iran, my great grandfather Aga Abdul succeeded in Azerbaijan.
My German great grandma Alexandra Böhmer was born in Russia,Volga region.Later, she and her family moved to Baku, where they owned a piano factory. 2/

🧵 Azerbaijanophobia/Turkophobia in Iran.

🔹 Estimated 70% of the population of Iran is not Persian and Turkish descent makes up 40% (~ 30 M).

🔹 The language, culture of the Southern Azerbaijani people are being suppressed today in a number of ways. 1/

unpo.org/members/7884 🔹No education in Azerbaijani is available at any level, including the University of Tabriz, where 7 other languages are taught.

🔹 All state television and radio channels are broadcast in Farsi.

🔹 Southern Azerbaijani women face double discrimination. 2/

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Anti-Semitic Armenia.

🔹Acc. to the ADL Global survey occurred in 2014, 58% of Armenians harbor anti-Semitic attitudes.

"Jews still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust"-sounds silly,but it is one of the reasons for the 🇦🇲#Antisemitism (45%).1/ 🔹According to the Interaction with Jews index,80% of respondents in Armenia have never met a Jewish person.
🔹There are only about 300–500 Jews presently living in Armenia.

So, why are there so few Jews in Armenia? Is it because Armenia is mono-ethnic? 2/

NO to #Antisemitism

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🇦🇿🇦🇲 Historical background of Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict
🔹1828, The Turkmanchai Treaty
40,000 Armenians were resettled in Azerbaijan.
🔹1829, Treaty of Edirne
90,000 Armenians who had been living in the Ottoman Empire were also resettled in Azerbaijan. 1/ 🔹The Russian Empire resettled the Armenians on the ter. of the Nakhchivan, Iravan & Karabakh khanates.

🔹The 🇷🇺 diplomat,A.S.Griboyedov - "the Armenians have for the most part been settled on the lands of Muslim landowners...The settlers...are forcing out the Muslims... 2/