You can say "Azerbaijan it just recaptured its lands from an occupier" but there are also videos of Azerbaijan literally launching balistic missiles on to armenian civilian settlements. Both sides commited war crimes but Azerbaijan started the warwith the intent of at the very least eliminating armenians in the area.
Yes, official stance because multiple top politicians of Azerbaijan have had this stance constantly over the years:
- Azerbaijani Defense Minister Safar Abiyev's spokesman in 2004, stated that "Within the next 25 years there will be no state of Armenia in the South Caucasus. These people ... have no right to live in this region. Modern Armenia was built on historical Azerbaijani lands. I think that in 25–30 years its territory will again come under Azerbaijan's jurisdiction."
- The mayor of Baku, Hajibala Abutalybov during at a meeting with a municipal delegation from Bavaria, Germany stated: "Our goal is the complete elimination of Armenians. You, Nazis, already eliminated the Jews in the 1930s and 40s, right? You should be able to understand us."
- Victor Krivopuskov, at the time an officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR and a member of a peacekeeping mission in Nagorno-Karabakh gives the following assessment of Azerbaijan's current state policy: "The criminals are promoted to the rank of heroes, monuments are erected on their burial places, which comes to prove that the government of Azerbaijan actually continues the policy of genocide which was initiated at the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th centuries."
- President Ilham Aliyev has made multiple of those statements:
He said that the capital of Armenia
Yerevan "was a gift to the Armenians in 1918. This was a great mistake. The Iravan khanate was Azerbaijani land, the Armenians were guests here."
"...there are forces that don't like us, our detractors. They can be divided into several groups. First, our main enemies are Armenians of the world and the hypocritical and corrupt politicians under their control."
"Armenia as a country is of no value. It is actually a colony, an outpost run from abroad, a territory artificially created on ancient Azerbaijani lands."
"We will continue our efforts to isolate Armenia. This policy is working. We see its results."
"The
Armenian lobby is our main enemy and we are the main enemy for them."
"Azerbaijan grows stronger and more powerful by the year, while Armenia weakens and declines every year."
"The Armenian barbarians and vandals have razed the city of
Agdam to the ground. The ruins of the city of Agdam are clearly visible from here."
"Azerbaijan's state flag should be waved in Shusha, Khankendi and Azerbaijanis should live in their historical lands in future. Our historical lands are Irevan khanate, Goyce and Zangazur regions. There will be times; we will live in these lands."
"
Armenia is not even a colony, it is not even worthy of being a servant"
He praised Ramil Safarov, a psychopath who murdered an Armenian Lieutenant by breaking into his room, attacking with an axe and almost decapitating him. Someone who said things like:
"I regret that I hadn't killed any Armenian before this. The army sent me to this training and here I learnt that two Armenians were taking the same course with us. I must say that hatred against Armenians grew inside me. In the beginning we were greeting each other, or rather they said "hi" to me but I didn't respond. The reason why I committed the murder was that they passed by and smiled in our face. At that moment I decided to kill them, i.e. to saw their heads off..."
And he praised him, saying "Azerbaijan has returned Ramil Safarov—its officer to homeland, given him freedom and restored the justice."
When they continually say things like this publicly, then yes, I think we can say that this is the official stance of Azerbaijan coming into the conflict.
As for your quote on Sarkisian, this is what he
actually said in full: “Before Khojalu, the Azerbaijanis thought that they were joking with us, they thought that the Armenians were people who could not raise their hand against the civilian population. We needed to put a stop to all that. And that’s what happened. And we should also take into account that amongst those boys were people who had fled from
[the anti-Armenian pogroms in] Baku and Sumgait.”
Yes, they massacred the Azeris in that event. Yes, that is undeniably
wrong. You could argue that they were hunting down the people fleeing after causing anti-armenian pogroms in Baku and Sumgait. But two wrongs don't make a right. And unlike Nein and unfortunately apparently you too, I don't excuse a genocide using another genocide.
So yes, I'm definitely sure that not supporting Azerbaijan's actions is the correct stance for any country.
As for the PKK, we can debate with no end whether it's wrong or right or whatever. It will never end because you, Nein, and Melkor are from Turkey and I'm a catholic indonesian in Germany. We have our own biases, we have our own point of views. But I don't believe in imprisoning people who
might just be related to the PKK in Germany. If they don't commit any crime or violence, not my issue. If they were proven to recruit terrorists or whatnot, the german government has taken actions like banning the PKK publishing houses, and will continue to do so in the future. But otherwise, we have freedom of speech in Germany.