Azerbaijan’s Border Closure

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Aliyev claims Azerbaijan’s land border remains closed due to ‘security concerns’

by Aytan Farhadova

•2 min read

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has claimed that the closure of Azerbaijan’s land borders since March 2020 has protected the country from ‘external risks’. Azerbaijan’s land borders were originally closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They have since remained inaccessible for entry, as well as for exit by Azerbaijani citizens. [Read more: Opinion | Four years of entrapment: why Azerbaijan’s land borders remain closed] Aliyev made his statements as part of the opening session of the

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Opinion | Four years of entrapment: why Azerbaijan’s land borders remain closed

by Javid Agha

•8 min read

Four years since the coronavirus pandemic began, Azerbaijan’s land borders remain closed to all civilian traffic. While officially this is to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, a number of theories exist regarding the real reason behind the measure. In the spring of 2020, Azerbaijan followed the example of many other countries, closing its land borders to prevent the transmission of the coronavirus, alongside a host of other preventive measures. Later the same year, the Second Nagorno-Kar

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Azerbaijan extends ‘COVID-19’ border closure until April

by Ismi Aghayev

•2 min read

Azerbaijan has extended the closure of its land borders to ‘prevent the spread of COVID-19’ until April, despite dropping most COVID-related restrictions, including air travel. Azerbaijan has been extending the closure of its borders since the outbreak of COVID-19 in March 2020. The country has since dropped all other anti-pandemic measures, including the use of facemasks and vaccination certificates, and has allowed Azerbaijanis and foreign nationals to enter the country by air without PCR

Four Azerbaijani students who were killed in the earthquake in Turkey. Image via Azertag.

2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake

Azerbaijanis killed in Turkey quake ‘could have survived if border was open’

by Ismi Aghayev

•2 min read

An Azerbaijani studying in Turkey has claimed that four other students who died in the Turkey–Syria earthquake would have been at home in Azerbaijan when the quake struck, had the country’s land borders not still been closed ‘due to COVID-19’. In a post on Facebook on Wednesday, Ibrahim Ibrahimov, a student at the Malatya Inonu University, blamed both the ongoing border closure and the ‘outragous’ prices of the country’s national carrier for their deaths. On 14 February, the bodies of Nazarz