THE IMPACTS OF THE SECOND WAR OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT (2020) ON THE IDENTITY CONSCIOUSNESS OF IRANIAN AZERBAIJANIS

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I aim to analyze the recent war of Nagorno-Karabakh in this thesis by taking ethnic identity and violence into account as a loop where the existence of one, can affect or precisely awaken the other. The conflict of Nagorno-Karabakh has its specific causes and effects like every other conflict in the international arena. However, this thesis narrowed down the impacts of the second war considering the ethnic self-awareness of Iranian Azerbaijanis. Regardless of the ethnic nature of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, it influenced the identity of Iranian Azerbaijanis and raised awareness of their similar ethnic identity elements to Turks in Azerbaijan. Therefore, this thesis seeks to analyze the ethnic identity awareness of Iranian Azerbaijanis through the second Nagorno-Karabakh conflict by tracing the discourse of ethnic identity and the concept of nation-state in the context of Iran within the framework of its minority policies.

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Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Ethnic Identity, Ethnic Conflict, Nation-State, Nationalism, Iranian Azerbaijanis

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A. Farrokhpour, “THE IMPACTS OF THE SECOND WAR OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT (2020) ON THE IDENTITY CONSCIOUSNESS OF IRANIAN AZERBAIJANIS,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.