President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev gave an interview to BBC News on November 6. During the interview, the journalist asked President Ilham Aliyev about the Armenians living in Azerbaijan, many of whom lived in fear, changed their surnames because they did not want to be openly recognized as Armenians, and how can Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh be safe.
In response to a journalist's question, the President said that these allegations were false. The next question of the journalist regarding the information received from the people living here was answered by the President as follows: "Maybe someone got married and changed their surname. This is a common practice here. But no. There are many Armenians living here and we know that they are Armenians. By the way, I can tell you and many people do not know about it. Former Armenian Defense Minister Arutunyan's sister lives in Azerbaijan. If you want, we can arrange a meeting with him. This is not really fear, this is Armenian propaganda.