Azerbaijan, which is in a strategic alliance with Turkey and is in conflict with Armenia because of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, shares the position of Turkey. During the Communist rule, when Azerbaijan was a part of the USSR, a brief description of the Armenian genocide was placed in the Azerbaijani Soviet Encyclopedia.[Azerbaijani Soviet Encyclopedia, Vol. IV, Baku, 1980, p. 84] Azerbaijan has actively lobbied against genocide recognition in other countries.
