Elderly Armenian turns to Azerbaijani ex-fellow villager VIDEO

An elderly Armenian living in the village of Mahmudlu, located in the administrative district of the city of Gafan in Zangazur, sent a video message to the Azerbaijani Samad Garayev, who was the chairman of the local village council in Soviet times.

Through the video message, he addressed a former fellow villager Samad Garayev in the Azerbaijani language, noting that along with the Azerbaijanis, grace and abundant harvests had gone from the village, according to Caliber.Az.

This village was called Mahmudlu until 1949, then Chaykend, but the locals still called it Mahmudlu. In the 1990s the name of the village was falsified and changed to Getishen.

Historically, the name Mahmudlu is associated with the Mahmudlu tribe, who came from Anatolia in the 15th-17th centuries and subsequently joined the Qizilbash (Kizilbash, also spelled Qizilbash, Turkish Kızılbaş ('Red Head'), any member of the seven Turkmen tribes who supported the Safavid dynasty in 1501–1736).