A presentation of the book "Stories of Western Azerbaijan" took place at the Alisher Navoi Tashkent State University of Uzbek Language and Literature in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The book was prepared within the framework of the project "The Theme of Western Azerbaijan in the Turkic World," implemented by the World Union of Young Turkish Writers (WGTYB) with funding from the Agency for State Support to Non-Governmental Organizations of the Republic of Azerbaijan (https://azertag.az/xeber/ozbekistanda_qerbi_azerbaycan_hekayeleri_kitabinin_teqdimati_kechirilib-3832547).

In recent years, Azerbaijan has been consistently building the ideological foundations of the so-called "culture of Western Azerbaijan" on various international platforms. Viewed in a broader context, this event is not merely the presentation of a work of fiction but an expression of cultural policy aimed at spreading the Azerbaijani narrative about the historical territories of Armenia, presenting them as a supposedly lost homeland and part of its cultural heritage.

The presentation was held in collaboration with intellectual circles from the Turkic world. In this way, Azerbaijan is attempting to use the cultural and educational platforms of Turkic countries to promote the idea that "Western Azerbaijan" has allegedly been a center of Azerbaijani identity. This book, prepared by the World Union of Young Turkish Writers with state funding from Azerbaijan, includes stories that present themes of displacement, memory, and identity from an Azerbaijani perspective, becoming a politicized cultural instrument.

In recent years, a systematic policy has become evident: to create and popularize what Azerbaijan calls "Western Azerbaijani culture."

Similar projects in the form of books, films, exhibitions, and educational programs all pursue a common goal — to construct a comprehensive cultural narrative that affirms the idea of "Western Azerbaijan" as a reality. In this direction, Baku employs not only state institutions, but also non-governmental organizations, writers' unions, and youth initiatives as instruments of a cultural process. However, here culture is used as a political tool to rewrite history and ideologically justify territorial claims. This book, as well as its presentation in Uzbekistan, is part of the same propaganda network whose aim is to present Western Azerbaijan to the international community as an identity that allegedly existed historically and is now being reinterpreted.