Google muss das beheben

ok, why dont our oligarchs bribe them even harder? oh wait, they are busy bribing God knows whom

English Wikipedia insists on using Armenian names for cities in Karabakh. For example, the article for Xankəndi is still titled Stepanakert, even though the opening sentence says that its official name is Xankəndi. In other languages like Russian, French, German and Spanish, the cities‘ names are in Azeri.

The reason for this anomaly is that English Wikipedia has a lot of ethnic Armenian and pro-Armenian editors, who arrived at a „consensus“ that since historically those cities were „better-known“ by their Armenian names, they should be kept in the titles. Similar logic was used for every major Turkish city – their articles begin with „*Turkish name*, or *obscure Greek name that hasn’t been used in centuries*“, like „Bursa, also known as Prousa“, even though it’s called Prousa only in Greek. Literally every other language Wikipedia mentions this only in the „Etymology“ section.

Such an approach „implies“ that the real name is the Armenian/Greek one and that Turkish/Azeri names are „fake settler colonizer names“. This is a part of an Armenian diasporan narrative that the Karabakh conflict is „not over“ and that „Artsakh shall be free once again“. As such, a lot of Westerners have a false belief that NK is „Armenian territory“ under Azeri occupation, which is why I see a lot of Americans say that „Azerbaijan attacked Armenia“ in 2023, even though NKR is not Armenia. English Wikipedia in general has a multi-decade track record of anti-Turkic bigotry, primarily at the hands of ethnic Armenian and Iranian editors whom Western editors leave in charge because they, as „natives of the region“, have better insight for regional topics than white nerds from Massachusetts.