Many of the 20,000 Armenians living in Azerbaijan say they are determined to stay in the country even if war breaks out between Baku and Yerevan over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Four Armenian women speaking on condition of anonymity told the Hürriyet Daily News that they have been living in Baku since birth and that they had never thought of leaving Baku. All of them married Azerbaijani men and have children.
They had never thought of leaving Azerbaijan’s capital. "We were born here, our parents are from Baku, this is our land, how can we ever leave here? Besides this, I have not personally witnessed any harsh reaction from anyone because of my Armenian identity," .
Almost all of the Armenians who left Azerbaijan want to come back to their lands. I have friends and relatives in Russia, Belgium and the United States, and they all say they still want to come back to Baku, because this is their homeland."
Armenians also echoed their government’s call on the Karabakh issue.