Writers' Union against Iranian Ambassador

"The great Azerbaijani poet Nizami was born in Azerbaijani town of Ganja. The poet lived and was buried there too. Nizami Ganjavi widely used Azerbaijani topics, national folk traditions in his works and enriched Persian poetry by his works. But it does not mean the poet was Persian.

Azeri Turk Mohammad Shahriyar, author of "Heydarbabaya salam" epic poem and tens more poems in Azerbaijani, who also wrote in Persian, is not Persian poet either.

Great Azerbaijani poets Imadeddin Nasimi, Mohammad Fuzuli as well as other classics of our national literature wrote in Persian and Arabic alongside native Azeri-Turk. No one has ever thought to consider them as Persian or Arabic poets.

The AWU's press regrets for the happenings and demands ending "inexperienced inventions" regarding classics of Azerbaijani literature," AWU concluded, as APA informs.