The taboos demolished and the doors opened by the operation

The military operations launched on September 27 may have a domino effect not only in and around Karabakh but also in the region. In 1918, the Ottoman army provided military support to the independence of Azerbaijan, first took the government under the protection and brought it into the declared borders (Ganja), and later liberated the capital.

Although the support given to both the national army and the Karabakh war in 1992-93 did not bring the desired results, the patient and restrained continuation of the army-building process eventually led to the establishment of a regular Azerbaijani army and the success of the ongoing operations.

This situation will, above all, shatter the "Armenian myth" in the Caucasus and, to some extent, in the world, and will motivate all countries interested in the region, especially Russia, to reconsider everything. The fact that Turkey, which was not content with plumping for the principle that operations must continue until the Azerbaijani lands are completely liberated, introduced the demand - “We also want Zangazur” - through political parties and NGOs was a new situation, and the new National Security Doctrine, adopted on July 10, shook the Tehran regime to one degree or another with the aggressor country, which identified Iran as its "closest friend". And the most important of all was that the support for the operations in Karabakh from the regions of South Azerbaijan had "triggered" the national consciousness as never before.

This was also clearly seen in Turkey, and with the fact that Tabriz's Traktor football team advanced with victories in the last 10 years and became the national champion in August, if I may say so, the rise of nationalist sentiments and the creation of an impressionist wave in the most natural format with the operations that began on September 27 had created a different situation in the region. I am sure that everyone understands that it is about the South Azerbaijan region, where 35 million people of Turkish origin live.

The unwavering nationalist support given by South Azerbaijan to the operation, which began on September 27, is a candidate to break the taboos that have been in place in Turkey since 1639, albeit slowly: Support for military operations from South Azerbaijan on a nationalist basis opened a window to reconsider the hesitations hidden within the framework of "Shah Ismail - Sultan Salim" and "Sunni - Shiite". When Soviet tanks killed 137 of our citizens on the streets of Baku on January 20, 1990, President Özal's reaction that "they are Shiites, let Iran care", as the famous saying in Anatolia, “had upset the applecart”, and for 30 years, Tehran has tried to use these words to “be a monkey wrench” in Turkish-Azerbaijani relations.

The irreversibility of the national consciousness, which was "triggered" by the military operations in South Azerbaijan on September 27, and the fact that those words of the late Özal, which had played into the hands of Tehran, became completely meaningless should not only benefit Baku and Tabriz but also Ankara.

Because the nationalist support provided by South Azerbaijan to the military operations that began on September 27 had overwhelmed the "feelings and emotions" of Turkish society. Some, if not all, of the media, politics, scholars, and NGOs have already removed the terms "Iranian" or "Azeri" from their circulation and replaced them with the terms "South Azerbaijan" and "Azerbaijani Turk."

Although the pandemic continues, some NGOs are still planning to hold rallies on the Ankara-Tabriz line, which loosened the borders between Turkey and Azerbaijan in 1990-91. In other words, the mutual feelings of nationalism, which was relieved of some pressure in recent years by the Traktor football team and has been walking over feelings and excitement and unable to get out of the "heart to heart" format, opens up a whole new direction for itself with the "triggering" of the operation, which began on September 27. The reality of Karabakh brings Turkey and South Azerbaijan closer and Ankara is conducting "brain exercises" to feel and understand Tabriz through this reality. Is it possible that this will become a state policy?

It is observed that it is impossible for it not to become. Because we are talking about a community that lives compactly on the other side of the border: what doesn’t a community of 35 million people of the same national origin "trigger" in the region?