Georgia is not the most direct route for pumping Azeri oil to the Mediterranean Sea.
It has barely 100, 000 people, but has caused the fall of two Azeri presidents.
The Azeri people also provide a notable cultural counterbalance to Iran to the south.
Turkey's ethnic and religious ties with its Azeri cousins have long weighed heavily in its Caucasus policy.
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East Azerbaijan's population is Turkish-speaking and comes from Azeri ethnicity, a minority with a big influence on the economy.
But even some of the book's critics, such as Azeri opposition activist Murad Gassanly, condemn the persecution of its author.
Also, the published results showed that Ahmadinejad won even in his opponents' strongholds, including Moussavi's hometown of ethnic Azeri Turks.
If Tagizade was causing problems down the Wales right, then Vaughan and Giggs were doubly dangerous down the Azeri left.
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Turkey would indeed benefit from a peace deal, but its sway over Azerbaijan is limited despite its big Azeri population.
But an Armenian architectural historian, Shagen Mkrtchyan, attributes them to Azeri architects and points out their borrowing of local Armenian elements.
An announcement will be made about this tonight on Azeri Public Television.
Wales' Jason Koumas had earlier missed a penalty against the ten-man Azeri.
It remains unclear if there were any casualties on the Azeri side.
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Mr Fatullayev is the former editor-in-chief and founder of the popular independent Russian languageweekly Realny Azerbaijan, and the Azeri language daily Gundalik Azarbaycan.
The Alliance is hosting a gala dinner focused on fostering economic, cultural, and diplomatic exchange and understanding between the American and Azeri peoples.
The only remaining question is whether Europe might be able to squeeze some Azeri gas into Greece and Southern Italy via the Trans Adriatic Pipeline.
The (very) lazy European assumption that SOCAR (the Azeri national champion) would be happy to sell its gas at the Turkish border needs totally rethinking.
C. will have the opportunity to learn more about Azerbaijan and the Azeri people thanks to the efforts of the Azerbaijan America Alliance, a Washington-based non-profit.
In some places, bulldozers are still at work, burying a second parallel pipeline that will eventually pump Azeri natural gas along the same route to neighboring Turkey.
The Karabakh Defence Ministry spokesman, Senor Hasratian, told the BBC that there had been gunfire overnight, but said that the reports in the Azeri media were false.
But the main export route for Azeri oil has yet to be decided and there'll be stiff competition for this and other pipeline routes out of the region.
But the independent newspaper Zerkalo claimed that the Council of Europe and western countries had warned the Azeri authorities not to allow "falsifications" to get out of hand.
But three Azeri news agencies said the fighting took place in Aghdam district, near the front line which has remained in place since the war ended in 1994.
Bale's teasing inswinging free-kick was spilled by Azeri stopper Agaev but Gunter could not capitalise on the error as the Azerbaijan defence managed to hack the ball to safety.
He couldn't go to Azerbaijan and had difficulty establishing any online contact with the country until he went to a conference in Tbilisi in 2008 and met four Azeri bloggers.
Azeri government officials could not be reached for comment.
True or not, the revelation has had the desired effect: It put the Azeri government of President Ilham Aliyev on the spot and forced it to disavow any such collaboration with Israel.
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