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Proud Christian PM Orbán congratulated Muslim leader for chasing away 120k Christians?
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The Hungarian liberal media are outraged: the proud Christian Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán congratulated Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev for conquering the Karabakh region and chasing away more than 120 thousand Armenian Christians.
As we wrote before, PM Viktor Orbán took part in the Astana session of the Turkic Council. Since he and his cabinet members spent there three days, they had multiple talks with Eastern leaders, including Turkish, Kazakh, and Uzbek heads and members of the governments. Among others, Orbán said that Ukraine cannot win the war on the battlefield, and the EU struggles with many problems. Meanwhile, foreign minister Péter Szijjártó said Kazakhs and Hungarians were related, and he also inaugurated a street in Astana named after Sándor Petőfi, one of the greatest Hungarian poets.
Orbán and the Turkic Council:
Orbán started his speech by congratulating Turkish President Erdogan on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Türkiye. He praised Türkiye’s fantastic performance then, which enabled them to revise the Sévres peace agreement and gain back territories.
Afterwards, he congratulated Ilham Aliyev for his work for the Caucasus region’s stabilisation. Furthermore, he wished good luck for the reconstruction of the Karabakh territory, 444.hu wrote.
The Karabakh region belonged de jure to Azerbaijan, but the Armenian forces managed to defeat the Azeri army in the first war between 1988 and 1994. As a result, the Armenian forces remained there, and de facto, the Karabakh region became autonomously led by the Armenians.
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That is what the Azerbaijani army terminated in October. They defeated the Armenian forces in just one day. Following that, the Armenian population left the region. As a result, 120 thousand Christians left the home of their ancestors living there for more than 2,000 years. That is what Orbán praised in Astana even though he regularly likes to propagate himself as the great protector of the Christians. HERE we wrote about the Hungary helps program targeting the support of the persecuted Christians all over the world.
Of course, Azerbaijan celebrates the reconquest since they think about the Karabakh territory as their homeland and believe the Armenians just took it from them. As we reported HERE, Hungarian companies will partake in its rebuilding project.
Story titles ending with a question mark are suspect. This is no different. How can the author suggest praise from Orbán for the expulsion of Christians? That’s not what the meeting was about.