President Ilham Aliyev speaks about deportations of Azerbaijanis at unveiling ceremony of Ashig Alasgar’s statue

BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 30. In his speech at the unveiling ceremony of a statue to Ashig
Alasgar, President Ilham Aliyev highlighted the deportations our
people were subjected to during the 20th century, Trend reports.
“Our nation was subjected to three waves of deportations in the
20th century – first in 1918, second in the 1940-50s and third in
the late 1980s and early 1990s. After a certain period of time,
after the two deportations, the Azerbaijani people returned to
their ancestral lands, not all of them but a large part of them
did. This makes us legitimately confident that the Western
Azerbaijanis who were subjected to the third wave of ethnic
cleansing will also return to their ancestral lands,” added the
President.

• Azerbaijanis
• President Ilham Aliyev
• 20Th Century
• Deportations