The visit paid to Nagorno-Karabakh by Nagehan Alcı, a reporter of the Turkish Aksam newspaper, caused a stir. She even became a persona non grata in Azerbaijan because of her interview with the Artsakh TV. On returning, she wrote an article, telling the truth.

“I have been in Stepanakert since last Friday, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijanis calls it Hankendi. The next morning I was invited to give an interview to the Artsakh TV. I thought my refusal would be misinterpreted. So I agreed. They asked me what was my opinion on that region. I answered: ‘As we can see only Armenians are residing here, and the authorities are formed of Armenians as well.’”

“I did not say anything about the past, about the history of that region. Why should I make any comments I came to study? My interview was televised. The next morning everybody recognized me in the street. The following day, however, things turned out a different way. In a day my e-mail was full of hundreds of messages. All of them were from my friends in Azerbaijan. At first I could not understand what the matter was. Later, I found out that many Armenian websites had misinterpreted my words. It turned out that I had said that ‘Karabakh [was] one hundred per cent Armenian land’ Azerbaijani and Russian mass media got that. As a result I caused an international crisis.”