Edvin Minassian, for many years in the United States continued the ongoing struggle between the Armenian and Turkish diasporas new player in the Azerbaijani lobby in the United States phrase ‘wrote caviar diplomacy.
Edvin Minassian
In the United States many years between the Armenian and Turkish societies focused on the recognition of the ongoing and often a lobbying competition is experienced. Until recently, these discussions that the parties were Turkish. Over the years, 
this situation has changed with the emergence on the scene of Azerbaijan lobby.
Oil and gas reserves through day by day stronger and richer Azerbaijan, the U.S. two heavyweight rival, Russia and Iran strategic location between the advantage to public attention, and in the United States actively lobbied entered into. The lobby Azerbaijan’s presentation, ensuring economic support, to draw attention to the problems of Azerbaijanis living in the United States and contenting himself with efforts to seek support in the Karabakh issue, the denial of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 showing a violent activities.
Aliyev’s instructions
As we know from the documents revealed by WikiLeaks, in March of 2007, at a forum held in Baku, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, “Azeri and Turkish lobbies should try one body,” he said. Acting on this principle, with the support of a large Unprecedented Azerbaijan state and municipal councils in a way almost everywhere, including the fact that increased efforts genocide denial. Federal and state senators and assembly members, is being taken to travel in large groups, gifts are given. High costly receptions and conferences, editing across the United States, politicians, high-election donations is falling.
Through these activities, there was a new term in the U.S. political literature: ‘Caviar diplomacy’. This diplomacy activities, related with Azerbaijan and “Turkish society” instead preferred the term “Turkic societies” may be divided into those dealing with problems.
Aliyev regime activities related to Azerbaijan ‘spread the gospel’ describes as the truths of-course regimen. Autocracy of dissidents and human rights defenders, rigged elections, media and methods of violent repression against domestic opposition as they’re an effort to rebut criticism. In this regard we can say that the Armenian lobby equally guilty. In Armenia, the existence of autocratic regimes, oligarchy, the majority of the grievances of the people and despite last year’s elections Saib, the Armenian lobby, do not hesitate to accuse Azerbaijan.
The power of money
These types of efforts, the impact on the American people are very skeptical and discussed. But the U.S. government and major corporations, human rights in general and oil / collision between strategic alliance, to prefer the latter. Disturbingly, Azerbaijanis to spend so much money lobbying the cause of weight gain in the country and gaining popularity in the eyes of its own people. In this regard, the Armenian lobby, hopeful signs of rapprochement with Iran, at least reduced the strategic importance of Azerbaijan and in anticipation of the price of oil falls.
Type the problems of society, known Karabağesele of the genocide and generally understood. This joint work is being done on issues and developments in Azerbaijan lobbying through the power of the material being recorded. Success with the financial expenditure, assuming that, nearly a dozen major figures are paid to lobby the company. Nevertheless, the issue of genocide obtained a great ‘success’ does not exist. But again, energy resources and industry is strong in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and in the parliaments of states like Arkansas, the Armenian lobby is being shut down by the generally higher on the recognition of the Khojaly Massacre achievements have been obtained.
However, last month, the California State Assembly unanimously passed the law on genocide education, their great efforts had generally inefficient. In many states, Azeri lobby fails to modest improvement, as well as the Armenian lobby, Matthew Bryza to Azerbaijan U.S. Ambassador to be in the Senate to block President Barack Obama, as well as Azeri lobby also great for was a defeat.
One of the reasons for this failure, they have established a strategic instability in the discourse. On the one hand, ‘a great relocation is not even the claim that the fully denial are resorting; other hand,’ Armenians stabbed us that, and that’s why Anatolia removed from the supposed ‘he claimed that their deportation to the grounds are showing. At the same time “already very few Armenians lived in Anatolia as” clingy rhetoric ‘serious’ even have a civil society organization. In Turkey, the AK Party period beginning with the Armenian issue more different perspective; civil initiative and very recently deportation humanitarian whether ‘expressing a Foreign Minister is the news as if there were, in 1990 the stereotypical rhetoric is still a recurring Turkic lobby, caviar diplomacy support Despite getting back to what degree ‘successful’ may be the subject of curiosity.