Gholamreza Gholizadeh, a lay Shia eulogist, referred to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as “bastards” and “consumers of illegitimately acquired foo ...
The figures they remembered through their elegies were the martyrs who fell during the Battle of Chaldoran (Chaldiran) over five centuries ago. “The Battle of Chaldoran isn't just another skirmish in ...