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Selim / Orbelian / Vardenyats caravanserai / source label: Şah Abbas (Səlim) karvansarası

Says Shah Abbas was its original name and an Arabic inscription dates construction to 1325–1326 under Abu Sa'id Bahadur; calls Armenian attribution to an Orbelian prince in 1332 and the modern Vardenyats name falsifications.

Claim

• Source 1 · westaz.org

Kara Koyunlu / Emir Pir Husein mausoleum, Argavand / source label: Cəfərabad (Pir Hüseyn) türbəsi

Claims it is Azerbaijani heritage and rejects both Armenian and Turkmen attribution, including the existing sign identifying the Kara Koyunlu Turkmens.

Claim

• Source 1 · westaz.org

Latest publication: 29 September 2026

School

Elkhan Aghayev Arbatan Village Secondary School, Salyan

Date / report

29 September 2026 report

Recorded activity and source

Completed open lesson; ministry and WAC board participation. ^[55]

Publication date: 2026-09-29 · Chart months: Sep 2026 · Source metadata checked

• Source 1 · edu.gov.az
• Source 2 · edu.gov.az

Əziz Ələkbərli: Zəngəzur, Dərələyəz və Göyçə mahalları bütün dövrlərdə Qafqaz Albaniyasının tərkibində olub

Publication date: 28 September 2026

In a Crossmedia interview, he describes a WAC working group studying Zangezur, Daralayaz and Goycha and denies historical Armenian presence there. Sweeping historical and ethnic assertions, including hostile generalisations; no announced attack. Do not convert them into verified heritage ownership.

Christian heritage and Armenia’s legitimacy

Əziz Ələkbərli: Zəngəzur, Dərələyəz və Göyçə mahalları bütün dövrlərdə Qafqaz Albaniyasının tərkibində olub

In a Crossmedia interview, he describes a WAC working group studying Zangezur, Daralayaz and Goycha and denies historical Armenian presence there.

The source claims all three districts were always part of Caucasian Albania.

Sweeping historical and ethnic assertions, including hostile generalisations; no announced attack. Do not convert them into verified heritage ownership.

Claim

• Source 1 · westaz.org
• Source 2 · crossmedia.az

Noravank monastery / source label: Amağu (Anabat) məbədi

Calls it Albanian Christian, describes the Orbelian patrons as Turkic, attributes rebuilding to Ilkhanid rulers, and says Armenian residents arrived in the neighbouring village only after 1988.

Claim

• Source 1 · westaz.org

Geghard monastery / source label: Gerqaç (Əyrivəng, Yuxarıvəng, Geğart) məbədi

Calls it an Albanian-Turkic Christian temple with Muslim-Turkic architectural elements; treats its several names as Turkic and says it began being presented as an Armenian religious monument only in the Soviet period.

Claim

• Source 1 · westaz.org

Aruch cathedral / source label: Talış məbədi

Calls the seventh-century church Albanian Christian; alleges that 1946–1948 restoration added Armenian elements and Gregorianized/Armenianized the building.

Claim

• Source 1 · westaz.org

Qərbi Azərbaycan İcması Ermənistanda bir qrup vətəndaş cəmiyyəti nümayəndəsinin 2020-ci ildən əvvəlki ritorikanı xatırladan müraciətini pisləyir

Publication date: 25 September 2026

WAC publication · 2026-09-25

Qərbi Azərbaycan İcması Ermənistanda bir qrup vətəndaş cəmiyyəti nümayəndəsinin 2020-ci ildən əvvəlki ritorikanı xatırladan müraciətini pisləyir

The publication asserts destruction, alteration or appropriation of Azerbaijani heritage in Armenia; forced expulsions or ethnic cleansing by Armenian actors.

These are attributed assertions or requests, not independently established facts, legal findings or recognized entitlements. Reviewed from a preserved primary-source text captured on 29 October 2026.

Claim

• Source 1 · westaz.org

Latest publication: 24 September 2026

Azerbaijan Technical University

The 22 September event names WAC board member Nazim Mustafayev as a speaker. This supports one host observation, not a formal partnership. Technical University differs from the already counted Azerbaijan Technology University. It does not establish WAC’s role in the April 2024 centre retrospectively.

Event date: 2026-09-22

• Source 1 · unikal.az
• Source 2 · muallim.edu.az

AzTU-da “Qərbi Azərbaycan bizim tarixi torpağımızdır!” mövzusunda tədbir keçirilib

Publication date: 24 September 2026

Event date: 22 September 2026

Unikal reports on 24 September; the education newspaper dates the event to 22 September. Each speaker’s exact words are not identified. Hosting and WAC participation are reported; WAC co-organization is not established.

AzTU event: historical-territory claim

AzTU-da “Qərbi Azərbaycan bizim tarixi torpağımızdır!” mövzusunda tədbir keçirilib

The account attributes territorial and heritage-destruction allegations collectively to speakers, including WAC board member Nazim Mustafayev.

Unikal reports on 24 September; the education newspaper dates the event to 22 September. Each speaker’s exact words are not identified. Hosting and WAC participation are reported; WAC co-organization is not established.

Claim

• Source 1 · unikal.az
• Source 2 · muallim.edu.az

Areni church / source label: Arpa məbədi

Calls it an Albanian-Turkic Christian temple and alleges that restorations in 1967–1972 and 1998 added Armenian Gregorian elements; uses local population and renaming claims to deny an original Armenian identity.

Claim

• Source 1 · westaz.org

ADPU-da akademik Hüseyn Əhmədovun 100 illiyinə həsr olunmuş elmi-praktik konfrans keçirilib

Publication date: 22 September 2026

• Source 1 · westaz.org

Qərbi Azərbaycan İcmasında indiki Ermənistan ərazisində Qafqaz Albaniyasının mədəni irsinin öyrənilməsi üzrə İşçi Qrupu yaradılmışdır

Publication date: 22 September 2026

Persian discovery led back to the WAC announcement and a complete issuer-statement reproduction. The source calls these objects Caucasian Albanian heritage and considers them part of its own heritage. It supplies no separate creation day or new named-site inventory. This publication already appears in heritage row 2/source 70; do not create another claim record.

Caucasian Albanian heritage working group

Creates a working group on alleged Caucasian Albanian heritage in present-day Armenia: Zangezur, Daralayaz and the Lake Sevan basin. Scope includes churches, chapels, cross-stones and monasteries. Claims WAC already holds hundreds of relevant documents.

Persian discovery led back to the WAC announcement and a complete issuer-statement reproduction. The source calls these objects Caucasian Albanian heritage and considers them part of its own heritage. It supplies no separate creation day or new named-site inventory. This publication already appears in heritage row 2/source 70; do not create another claim record.

Claim

• Source 1 · westaz.org
• Source 2 · report.az
• Source 3 · modern.az

Odzun church / source label: Uzunlar məbədi

Calls it an Albanian-Turkic temple; claims renaming from Uzunlar to Odzun in 1967 Armenianized it and that successive restorations, including 2012–2014 with Milan Polytechnic specialists, added Armenian elements.

Claim

• Source 1 · www.westaz.org

Əziz Ələkbərli: Qərbi Azərbaycanın ərazisi qədim Türk–Oğuz-Qıpçaq yurdudur

Publication date: 21 September 2026

In AZERTAC comments, he gives 29,800 square kilometres and claims pre-fifteenth/sixteenth-century monuments have no Armenian basis. Attributed assertion or demand; the monitor does not validate the claimed entitlement or underlying accusations.

Armenia described as a Turkic-Oghuz-Kipchak homeland

Əziz Ələkbərli: Qərbi Azərbaycanın ərazisi qədim Türk–Oğuz-Qıpçaq yurdudur

In AZERTAC comments, he gives 29,800 square kilometres and claims pre-fifteenth/sixteenth-century monuments have no Armenian basis.

A territory-wide claim, not 29,800 individually evidenced sites.

Attributed assertion or demand; the monitor does not validate the claimed entitlement or underlying accusations.

Claim

• Source 1 · westaz.org
• Source 2 · azertag.az

Khor Virap / source label: Aselişad / Xorvirab məbədi

Identifies it as an Armenian-Kipchak Turkic Christian temple, attributes Tiridates III to that category, and says promotion as an Armenian sacred centre dates only to the Soviet period.

Claim

• Source 1 · westaz.org

2026-09-19 / Aziz Alekberli, Moderator.az interview republished by WAC

Describes the existence of Armenia and Armenians in the South Caucasus as the greatest threat to peace/security; says claimed return will occur regardless of Armenian wishes and refusal of a peaceful path legitimizes alternative means.

Conditional coercion and collective hostility; alternative means are unspecified.

Threats

• Source 1 · www.westaz.org

Əziz Ələkbərli: Ermənistan 44 günlük müharibənin dərslərindən qətiyyən nəticə çıxarmayıb

Publication date: 19 September 2026

Separate from the Moderator interview published by WAC at 10:08 the same day. This 09:35 article predicts harm by Armenians; it does not itself announce harm by WAC or Azerbaijan and should not add another threat count.

Return campaign made a condition of peace

Əziz Ələkbərli: Ermənistan 44 günlük müharibənin dərslərindən qətiyyən nəticə çıxarmayıb

In a distinct AZERTAC interview reproduced by WAC, the chair uses hostile collective language about Armenians and claims nonimplementation of the return campaign proves an intention to renew war.

Separate from the Moderator interview published by WAC at 10:08 the same day. This 09:35 article predicts harm by Armenians; it does not itself announce harm by WAC or Azerbaijan and should not add another threat count.

Claim and demand

• Source 1 · westaz.org
• Source 2 · azertag.az

Qərbi Azərbaycan İcmasının Ermənistanda sülhə hazırlıq və Azərbaycan mədəni irsi ilə bağlı əsassız iddialarla əlaqədar bəyanatı

Publication date: 17 September 2026

WAC publication · 2026-09-17

Qərbi Azərbaycan İcmasının Ermənistanda sülhə hazırlıq və Azərbaycan mədəni irsi ilə bağlı əsassız iddialarla əlaqədar bəyanatı

The publication asserts destruction, alteration or appropriation of Azerbaijani heritage in Armenia. It calls for restoration or protection of the heritage it claims in Armenia.

These are attributed assertions or requests, not independently established facts, legal findings or recognized entitlements. Reviewed from a preserved primary-source text captured on 29 October 2026.

Claim and demand

• Source 1 · westaz.org

Qərbi Azərbaycan İcması erməni cəmiyyətini “miatsum” siyasətindən imtina etməyə çağırır

Publication date: 16 September 2026

WAC publication · 2026-09-16

Qərbi Azərbaycan İcması erməni cəmiyyətini “miatsum” siyasətindən imtina etməyə çağırır

It calls for abandonment of “Miatsum” and acceptance of Azerbaijan’s sovereignty.

These are attributed assertions or requests, not independently established facts, legal findings or recognized entitlements. Reviewed from a preserved primary-source text captured on 29 October 2026.

Demand

2026-09-16 / WAC institutional statement

Alleges fabricated history and a toxic ideology and points to the consequences of previous Armenian policy before calling on Armenian society to abandon Miatsum and avoid provocations.

Past consequences are invoked without a specified future attack.

Threats

• Source 1 · westaz.org
• Source 2 · westaz.org

Dərələyəz mahalından olan yüksək nəticə göstərən gənclərlə görüş keçirilib

Publication date: 15 September 2026

• Source 1 · westaz.org

Qərbi Azərbaycan İcması Azərbaycanda akkreditə olunmuş diplomatik korpusur Qarabağ və Şərqi Zəngəzura son səfərin Ermənistanın kəskin reaksiya verməsin qətiyyətlə pisləyir

Publication date: 15 September 2026

• Source 1 · westaz.org

Qərbi Azərbaycan İcmasında “Vətənpərvər gənclik: Dəyərlər, məsuliyyət və gələcək” mövzusunda görüş keçirilib

Publication date: 12 September 2026

Event date: 11 September 2026

• Source 1 · westaz.org

Qərbi Azərbaycan İcmasında Qafan rayonundan ali məktəblərə qəbul olmuş gənclərlə görüş keçirilib

Publication date: 12 September 2026

• Source 1 · westaz.org

Qayıdış hüququmuz sülh gündəliyinin ayrılmaz hissəsidir

Publication date: 11 September 2026

Return-entitlement claim in the peace agenda

Alakbarli calls for recognition of WAC’s asserted return entitlement within the Armenia–Azerbaijan peace agenda.

The entitlement is asserted by the source, not established by this monitor. No specific threatened consequence appears in the reviewed text.

Claim and demand

• Source 1 · westaz.org

Latest publication: 10 September 2026

University

Sumgait State University

Classification

Established center

Record

Creation decided 9 September 2026; subsequent ADPU meeting corroborates an operating center. ^{[45] [46]}

Publication date: 2026-09-10 · Event date: 2026-09-09 · Chart months: Sep 2026 · Source metadata checked

• Source 1 · mail.sdu.edu.az
• Source 2 · adpu-westaz.org
• Source 3 · www.sdu.edu.az

ÇƏMBƏRƏK RAYONUNDAN TƏLƏBƏ ADINI QAZANAN GƏNCLƏRLƏ GÖRÜŞ KEÇİRİLİB

Publication date: 9 September 2026

• Source 1 · westaz.org

Ermənilərlə görüşə onların kefini soruşmaq üçün getmirik - MÜSAHİBƏ

Publication date: 7 September 2026

Aziz Alakbarli · 2026-09-07

Ermənilərlə görüşə onların kefini soruşmaq üçün getmirik - MÜSAHİBƏ

Alakbarli demands implementation of WAC’s return conditions and legal isolation of people obstructing them; he also attacks Armenian identity and language.

A demand for coercive enforcement by Armenian authorities, not a stated WAC plan to attack. “Isolation from society” is not further defined.

Claim and demand

• Source 1 · westaz.org
• Source 2 · modern.az

Nərimanov rayonunda Qərbi azərbaycanlı məktəblilərlə görüş keçirilib

Publication date: 3 September 2026

The branch-organized meeting links assistance to the Return Concept campaign. Seventy is a reported pupil count, not a school or event count. No school names or separate event day are supplied.

Historical-territory claim repeated at pupil meeting

Nərimanov rayonunda Qərbi azərbaycanlı məktəblilərlə görüş keçirilib

The body names Narimanov branch chair Tamraz Taghiyev as the speaker and links school assistance to the Return Concept.

A repeated territorial assertion, attributed to Taghiyev quoting Aliyev. It is not a newly announced boundary or direct threat.

Claim

• Source 1 · westaz.org

HG42 · Qızılvəng məbədi

Description available · Description recovered 29 October 2026; source historical assertions remain claims.

Catalog dates estimated from image filenames.

Claim

• Source 1 · westaz.org

HG68 · Yerəyurk məbədi / Yereruyk basilica

Description available · Description recovered 29 October 2026; source historical assertions remain claims.

Catalog dates estimated from image filenames.

Claim

• Source 1 · westaz.org

HG09 · Avan məbədi / Avan cathedral

Description available · Description recovered 29 October 2026; source historical assertions remain claims.

Catalog dates estimated from image filenames.

Claim

• Source 1 · westaz.org

Latest publication: Sep 2026

University

Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University

Classification

Established center

Record

The rector’s March 2025 report dates center operation to March 2024. A university-supported teaching-policy meeting was held on 6 March 2025; joint conference organization and school outreach are also documented. ^{[34] [35]}

Chart months: Mar 2024, Feb 2025, Mar 2025, Sep 2026 · Source metadata checked

• Source 1 · adpu-westaz.org
• Source 2 · beu.edu.az
• Source 3 · adpu-westaz.org
• Source 4 · westaz.org