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Scientist from Austria writes book on history of Azerbaijan

08 June 2005 [09:16] - TODAY.AZ
Professor of the Vienna University, Erich Feigel, in the framework of his visit to Azerbaijan, met with the Azerbaijan’s President, Ilham Aliyev, chairman of the State Committee on work with Azerbaijanis, residing abroad, Nazim Ibragimov, on 6 June, and on 7 June he will meet with the media representatives.
Feigel writes a book under the title “The Silk Road on the Land of Fire”, telling about the history of Azerbaijan, Trend reports.

The book also tells about the place and the role of the Azerbaijani people in the modern world, there are discussions on the geopolitical importance of Azerbaijan. Feigel is a researcher of the history of Azerbaijan, Turkey, the Turkic history on the whole. He is the author of some works, exposing the real face of the Armenian terrorism. These works were published in the English, German, French languages with a big printing circulation.

Feigel told at the news conference, that the world public has very little, true and correct knowledge about the real Turkic history. "At the result of the Armenian propaganda a false, negative information about theTurks has been formed. The Azerbaijanis must put efforts for making changes in these ideas, to spread about their honourable history", Feigel said.

Professor told that the Turkish archives were always open in regard to events, happened on the territory of the Osman Empire in 1915. But Armenian archives never open, as their opening means for them a complete defeat. «All bloody actions of Andranik had been documented. Opening of these archives would be self-murder for the Armenians”, Feigel added.

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