Nagorno-Karabakh War, the Kurdish Republic of Lachin was declared in Armenia by a group of Kurds led by Wekîl Mustafayev. However, since most of the area's Kurdish population had fled along with the ethnic Azerbaijani people and had found refuge in other regions of Azerbaijan, this attempt failed. Mustafayev later took refuge in Italy. See also Kurds in Azerbaijan Kurds in Russia List of Kurdish dynasties and countries Kurdish alphabets Yekbûn References Notes Sources Müller, Daniel "The Kurds and the Kurdish Language in Soviet Azerbaijan According to the All-Union Census of December 17, 1926". The Journal of Kurdish Studies, vol. 3, pp. 61–84. Müller, Daniel. "The Kurds of Soviet Azerbaijan 1920-91". Central Asian Survey, vol. 19 i. 1 (2000), pp. 41–77. Yilmaz, Harun. “The Rise of Red Kurdistan.” Iranian Studies, vol. 47 i. 5 (2014), pp. 799–822. Nagorno-Karabakh Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Forced migration in the Soviet Union Uezds of the Soviet Union Former Kurdish states in Azerbaijan Former countries of the interwar period