A century ago, amid the granting of territory to forge the first Armenian homeland in history, followed by the emergence of a new, rabid strain of nationalism and chimeric fantasies of a Greater Armenia, London dispatched a senior diplomat to Karabakh.
His mission was to ascertain the true essence of the region. Since then, following well over a century marked by Soviet domination and Yerevan’s eviscerating occupation, the region is finally liberated.
Now, Karabakh’s future is galvanised through the towering vision of President Ilham Aliyev.
During my time, I sat with political men, men of military demeanour, men of religion and men of commerce. Yet none I encountered proffered the wisdom of an old Tatar I stumbled upon by chance one day.
