After ten days on the "Lachin" Highway, Azerbaijani protesters continue to demonstrate, ostensibly against unlicensed mining in Armenian-administered areas of Karabakh, but the geopolitical stakes are higher.

For the large group of Azerbaijani-Turks living in Iran ethno-linguistic expression is complicated. At Tractor FC football matches, however, they can “voice their otherwise silenced opinions and discontents while sharing in a sense of mutual solidarity.” Can a football stadium really contain all that pride?

“You can talk about a church, you can talk about a mosque, you can talk about any other temple. But for us our houses were our temples.” Dr. Mammadov said. “They were destroyed. And no one talks about that…”