“I thought I lived in the 21-st century, not in the Middle Ages,” the Bulgarian journalist says. November 17 he was arrested upon the arrival in Azerbaijan due to his Armenian origins. Journalist Eduard Papazian, a fourth generation citizen of Bulgaria, had arrived in Baku as part of a delegation of journalists, who came to cover the football match between the football teams of Azerbaijan and Bulgaria. When passing the passport check he was detained by Azeri frontier guards, arrested and interrogated. After that without further explanations Papazian was expelled from the country. Now he is in Istanbul and expects execution of records for returning to Bulgaria. “I am proud of my background,” he said.
The scandal with the arrest of the journalist has caused a boisterous response in Bulgaria.
It should be reminded that tens of Iranians of Azeri origin enter Armenia without difficulty literally every day. None is interested in their ethnic origins.
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