ArmInfo. Today Talyshstan faces the same situation Karabakh had faced decades ago, Shakhin Mirsoev, Azerbaijani journalist of Talysh origin, stated delivering a speech at the Expert Session of Stepanakert Blockade Breakthrough. 25 years after. Together with his family Mirzoev was rendered a shelter in Armenia.
The event was admitted also by Artak Zakaryan, the Head of the National Assembly Permanent Commission of Foreign Affairs, Russian expert Sergey Markedonov, Sergey Minasyan, the Deputy Director for the Caucasus Instittute and other.
Actually, Talysh people in Azerbaijan are under informational blockade, and those who even try to resist it, are being cruelly punished. Their wish to have own TV channel, newspaper, student books is accepted by Baky as separatism. The people who talk about that are announced public enemies ad put into prisons for "drug dealing". "I was arrested for 7 days for a requirement set forth by Constitution," hementioned In the result of such policy about 300 000 talysh people abandoned Azerbaijan and today the second Karabakh rises in Talyshstan. Mirsoev mentioned that today there are over 2 mln talyshes living in Azerbijan, and it is impossible to destroy it.
"I don't think that my coming to Armenia was related to risks. Risks would be related to returning to Azerbaijan. I came here and I think I didn't make a mistake," Mirzoev