After Elchibey, Azerbaijan Turks were ruled by Aliyev Dynasty. First Haydar Aliyev and now his son İlham Aliyev. Haydar & Ilham Aliyev had kurdish & armenian blood in their vessels. Haydar Aliyev was a fanatic commie in Soviet Era and a member of Politburo & KGB.

 Elchibey was a real Turkish Nationalist & Panturkist. He rebelled against Soviet Invaders and get out of them Azerbaijan soil. He was an admirer of BASBUG ATATÜRK.

 In Karabagh War, Elchibey was successful at the begining. However, Haydar Aliyev coooperated with Russia to take down Elchibey. KGB bought some generals, politicians(Rahim Gaziyev, Suret Huseyinov etc.) in Azerbaijan and arranged a coup d'etat against Elchibey. Elchibey went to his village for not causing a civil war and spoiling innocent citizens blood. Because of these fight inside Azerbaijan Turks, Armenians invaded Karabagh and 6 provinces easily, massacred many Azerbaijan Turks(Khojaly Massacre). Aliyev gave these 6 provinces to Armenians without fighting.

 Haydar Aliyev captured the presidency of Azerbaijan and established his dynasty to rule the country. After his death, his son İlham became president. They strictly ruled the country and not led real democratic elections in Azerbaijan.

 Turul Anda, What are your opinions about this topic.
 https://www.hunturk.net/forum/index.php?topic=3124.0

What I meant however in the above post is that I have no information about the protests in Baku, and their development - I only saw a short news on a Hungarian site.

 
 
 The demonstration or it should be named as the demonstration attempt was arranged by Musavat Party. Musavat Party was the oldest political party. Today Musavat is the strongest opposition party with Elchibeys Popular Front. However Elchibeys party divided into 2 different factions.
 
 The lack of leadership is a big problem of the political opposition in Azerbaijan especially after Elchibey. On the other hand, There are also some other groups(Ex Commies, Liberals, Russian agents etc.) in the opposition who were cooperated with Aliyev in the past. They mostly have influenced the general statements and political strategies in the opposition.

 Another negative point of opposition is financing openly by Jewish Soros & the other Western powers. Ilham Aliyev used these against the opposition.

 It seems Aliyev will win the upcoming elections again because of the reasons I wrote in the above.

 

I wasn't clear on the role of Turanism in the Azeri war - I read something about Elchibey tough now that you mentioned him.

Did a battalion of Grey Wolves from Türkiye fight in that war?

 Firstly, Turanism is used to be equal to The Union of Turk Nations by us. However, I know that there is a big sympathy against Azerbaijan Turks & their struggle in Finland, Estonia & other Baltic nations because the common sense about anti-russian sentiment.

 Secondly, there was a volunteer force which derived from 500 Grey Wolves(the supporters of MHP-Nationalist Action Party in Turkey) fought in Karabakh War against Armenians, they gave also martial arts and basic military courses to Azerbaijani soldiers, volunteers. They were called Wind Battalion. However, they mostly are known as Greywolves. After Elchibeys down from presidency,  this battalion was recalled by ex-leader of MHP(Alparslan Turkesh) because Russian made pressure and the new government in Turkey supported Aliyev. Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel was a close friend of Haydar Aliyev & both two are free mason brothers with Ex-Armenian President Levon Ter Petrosyan in the same mason lodge.

some pics of Greywolves Battalion(Wind Battallion)
http://tr-tr.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=182785868431713

Musavat Party? What are they about?

 As I mentioned they are the oldest political party in Azerbaijan. The partys founder cadres were strictly Turk Nationalist, Panturkist, Nationalist Conservative Democrat. However, the current party members and policies are liberalist. İsa Gambar,  The leader of Musavat was close to Elchibey  in the past but he seems far away from Elchibeys politics. For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musavat

And what about Elchibey's party what are the two new sucessor parties about?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan_Popular_Front_Party
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Azerbaijan_Popular_Front_Party

 There are also some small patriotic, nationalist parties and groups in Azerbaijan too. However, they aren't known well in the public because of financial problems and pressure of Aliyev Dynasty.

Yes that's the problem with Central Asian politics Russia has a strong influence (especially with ex-communists), Globalists (like our good "friend" Soros) have a strong influence, Islamic extremists form a third force - Turanism is lost in between the three. (In Azerbaijan at least Islamicism is not a problem - or it does not seem to be)

 You're extremely right, Anda. The major problem is Russia. Russia is still effective in the independent Turk countries. Many of their leaders are ex-commies, Russian Agents. Turkey lost the opportunity to form alliance with these countries because our governments and politicians are mostly stupid, Non-Turk, enemies of Turkish Union. They serve to Zionism, E.U, U.S.A. We have no independent & Turksih Nationalist leader after ATATÜRK in Turkey.