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Anti-Turkey Statements In Iran – Part III: Erdoğan Is Undermining Iran s Territorial Integrity January 11, 2021 | By A. Savyon and M. Manzour Introduction Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sparked rage in Iran recently by quoting a popular Azeri poem; his recitation was perceived in Iran as an insult and a provocation against Iran s sovereignty and territorial integrity. On December 10, during his participation in the Azerbaijan victory celebrations over the liberation of Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenia, he recited, in Turkish, a line from the Azeri poem Aras : They tore the Aras [River] and filled it with rocks and sticks / I will not be separated from you. They have separated us forcibly, he said. The poem laments the division of the Azeri provinces between the Persian Qajar Empire and Czarist Russia in the early 19th century. Areas of the Caucasus that are today part of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia belonged to the Qajar Persian Empire, and following its defeats

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