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He directed and co-produced a documentary for Global Vision's Rights and Wrongs program<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rights and Wrongs Series: Europe, Chechnya: Russia's Human Rights Nightmare {{!}} Alexander Street, part of Clarivate |url=https://search.alexanderstreet.com/preview/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C2551129 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927124854/https://search.alexanderstreet.com/preview/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C2551129 |archive-date=2023-09-27 |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=search.alexanderstreet.com}}</ref> which was a finalist in the [[Rory Peck Award]] for excellence in television journalism in 1996<ref>{{Cite web |last=Goltz |first=Thomas |date=1996-12-29 |title=U.S. Quietly Abandons the Kurds of Northern Iraq |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-29-op-13478-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927125248/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-29-op-13478-story.html |archive-date=2023-09-27 |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=News Award |url=https://rorypecktrust.org/awards/past-finalists/news-award/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608182653/https://rorypecktrust.org/awards/past-finalists/news-award/ |archive-date=2023-06-08 |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=The Rory Peck Trust |language=en-US}}</ref> |
He directed and co-produced a documentary for Global Vision's Rights and Wrongs program<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rights and Wrongs Series: Europe, Chechnya: Russia's Human Rights Nightmare {{!}} Alexander Street, part of Clarivate |url=https://search.alexanderstreet.com/preview/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C2551129 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927124854/https://search.alexanderstreet.com/preview/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C2551129 |archive-date=2023-09-27 |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=search.alexanderstreet.com}}</ref> which was a finalist in the [[Rory Peck Award]] for excellence in television journalism in 1996<ref>{{Cite web |last=Goltz |first=Thomas |date=1996-12-29 |title=U.S. Quietly Abandons the Kurds of Northern Iraq |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-29-op-13478-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927125248/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-29-op-13478-story.html |archive-date=2023-09-27 |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=News Award |url=https://rorypecktrust.org/awards/past-finalists/news-award/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608182653/https://rorypecktrust.org/awards/past-finalists/news-award/ |archive-date=2023-06-08 |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=The Rory Peck Trust |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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After Goltz's death, Azerbaijani President [[Ilham Aliyev]] sent a condolences message to his family and described Goltz as "a great friend of Azerbaijan".<ref name="az-friend" /> |
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⚫ | Thomas Goltz was born in [[Japan]] and raised in [[North Dakota]]. He graduated from [[New York University]] with an MA in [[Middle East]] studies.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Gausan |first=Robert |title=Thomas Goltz - Biography |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3698617/bio/ |archive-url=https://archive.ph/2aJrS |archive-date=2023-09-27 |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}</ref |
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==Early life== |
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⚫ | Thomas Goltz was born in [[Japan]] and raised in [[North Dakota]]. He graduated from [[New York University]] with an MA in [[Middle East]] studies.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Gausan |first=Robert |title=Thomas Goltz - Biography |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3698617/bio/ |archive-url=https://archive.ph/2aJrS |archive-date=2023-09-27 |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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==Career== |
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He became known mainly as a crisis correspondent due to coverage of the [[First Nagorno-Karabakh War|first war]] between [[Azerbaijan]] and [[Armenia]] over [[Karabakh]], the war of secession in [[Abkhazia]] from [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] and the separatist conflict in [[Chechnya]].<ref name=":0" /> [[Thomas de Waal]], who was a friend of Goltz and praised ''Azerbaijan Diary'' for being informational on Azerbaijani society, admitted Goltz had a pro-Azerbaijan bias and that his book "doesn’t actually tell you that much about the war in Karabagh".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://onnik-krikorian.com/new_site/thomas-de-waal-interview/ |title=AN INTERVIEW WITH THOMAS DE WAAL |date=16 April 2002 |website=Onnik Krikorian |access-date=March 19, 2023 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230319085203/https://onnik-krikorian.com/new_site/thomas-de-waal-interview/ |archive-date=March 19, 2023}}</ref> |
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Goltz claimed to have seen 479 corpses from the [[Khojaly massacre]] at the morgue in Aghdam, however only 181 corpses in Aghdam were forensically examined. [[Vahram Atanesyan]] has speculated that, because there was no electronic communication within Azerbaijan at the time, it is likely that Goltz's report that was published by ''The Washington Post'' had been delivered the Turkish embassy in Washington.<ref>{{cite news |last=Atanesyan |first=Vahram |date=25 July 2013 |title=Thomas Goltz: The Godfather of the Legend of the "Khojaly Genocide" |url=https://horizonweekly.ca/en/13317-2/ |work=[[Horizon Weekly]] |access-date=6 February 2023 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206022542/https://horizonweekly.ca/en/13317-2/ |archive-date=6 February 2023}}</ref> Goltz's eyewitness account also included graphic killings of alleged Azerbaijani victims whose names did not appear on the official list of deaths complied by Azerbaijan.<ref>{{cite news |title=Pro-Azerbaijani propagandist Thomas Goltz caught on falsifications of 1992 Aghdam events |url=https://www.panorama.am/en/news/2016/02/26/Thomas-Goltz/1535389 |work=Panorama |date=26 February 2016 |access-date=24 May 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190524092140/https://www.panorama.am/en/news/2016/02/26/Thomas-Goltz/1535389 |archive-date=24 May 2019}}</ref> |
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⚫ | On August 22, 2000, Goltz carried the symbolic “first barrel of oil” from [[Baku]], [[Azerbaijan]] with [[IMZ-Ural|IMZ]] sidecar motorcycle, to [[Ceyhan]], Turkey with other 25 riders. They used to future [[Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline|Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline]] route at the time. The aim was to draw attention to this mega project which symbolizes both Azerbaijan's and [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]'s (country) economic independence.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2001 |title=Oil Odyssey 2000 |url=https://azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/92_folder/92_articles/92_odyssey.html |journal=[[Azerbaijan International]] |pages=60–61}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Oil Odyssey | website=Amazon |url=https://www.amazon.com/Oil-Odyssey-Thomas-Goltz-ebook/dp/B00ADWZ7CQ?ref_=ast_author_dp |access-date=2023-09-27}}</ref> |
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In 2020, he was awarded an honorary [[PhD]] by the [[ADA University]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=TheEditor |date=2021-06-15 |title=American author Goltz: Eccentric regional icon still at it |url=https://www.thetribune.com/culture-american-author-goltz-eccentric-regional-icon-still-at-it/ |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=The Tribune |language=en-GB}}</ref> |
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⚫ | He lectured at most leading US universities including [[Columbia University|Columbia]], [[Georgetown University|Georgetown]], [[University of California, Berkeley|Berkeley]], [[Northwestern University|Northwestern]], [[Princeton University|Princeton]], etc and foreign policy-related institutes in Azerbaijan, [[Canada]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], the [[United Kingdom]] and the United States.<ref name=":3" /> Other than that he was also professor in [[Montana State University]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Thomas Goltz {{!}} Pulitzer Center |url=https://pulitzercenter.org/people/thomas-goltz |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=Pulitzer Center}}</ref> In 2020, he was awarded an honorary [[PhD]] by the [[ADA University]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=TheEditor |date=2021-06-15 |title=American author Goltz: Eccentric regional icon still at it |url=https://www.thetribune.com/culture-american-author-goltz-eccentric-regional-icon-still-at-it/ |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=The Tribune |language=en-GB}}</ref> |
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==Personal life== |
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Goltz fluently spoke [[English language|English]], [[German language|German]], [[Turkish language|Turkish]], [[Arabic language|Arabic]], [[Azerbaijani language|Azerbaijani]], [[Russian language|Russian]] and [[Japanese language|Japanese]].<ref name=":0" /> |
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==Controversy== |
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The Armenian National Committee of Canada accused Goltz of racism in March 2009 for remarks made at a lecture sponsored by Assembly of Azerbaijani-Canadian Organizations. According to the Armenian National Committee, Goltz characterized the [[Armenians|Armenian]] inhabitants of Nagorno-Karabakh as "garlic-growing Armenians", and selectively mentioned instances of ethnic cleansing by Armenians against Azerbaijanis while omitting mention of cases of ethnic cleansing of Armenians by Azerbaijanis.<ref>[https://armenianweekly.com/2009/03/10/‘let-the-garlic-growing-armenians-beg-to-join-you-azerbaijan’/ ‘Let the garlic-growing Armenians beg to join you [Azerbaijan]’]</ref> |
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Goltz has referred to [[Sumgait pogrom|Sumgait]], [[Kirovabad pogrom|Kirovabad]], and [[Baku pogrom]]s, in which Armenian civilians were massacred by Azerbaijanis, as "so-called pogroms".{{sfn|Goltz|1998|p=xv}} Goltz endorsed an Azerbaijani conspiracy theory that the Sumgait pogrom was "a KGB plot hatched by agent provocateurs to ratchet up the intercommunal violence".{{sfn|Goltz|1998|loc=chpt. 4}} |
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Thomas Goltz died on July 29, 2023, at the age of 68 after a long illness.<ref>[https://apa.az/en/literature/american-writer-thomas-goltz-who-wrote-about-khojaly-tragedy-passed-away-408637 American writer Thomas Goltz who wrote about Khojaly tragedy passed away]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Pope |first=Hugh |date=2023-08-01 |title=RIP Thomas Goltz, the journalist who knew no limits |url=https://hughpope.com/2023/08/01/rip-thomas-goltz-the-journalist-who-knew-no-limits/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927115346/https://hughpope.com/2023/08/01/rip-thomas-goltz-the-journalist-who-knew-no-limits/ |archive-date=2023-09-27 |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=Hugh Pope |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Thomas Caufield Goltz Obituary 2023 |url=https://www.franzen-davis.com/obituaries/thomas-goltz |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=Franzen-Davis Funeral Home, Crematory and Monument Company |language=en}}</ref> |
Thomas Goltz died on July 29, 2023, at the age of 68 after a long illness.<ref>[https://apa.az/en/literature/american-writer-thomas-goltz-who-wrote-about-khojaly-tragedy-passed-away-408637 American writer Thomas Goltz who wrote about Khojaly tragedy passed away]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Pope |first=Hugh |date=2023-08-01 |title=RIP Thomas Goltz, the journalist who knew no limits |url=https://hughpope.com/2023/08/01/rip-thomas-goltz-the-journalist-who-knew-no-limits/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927115346/https://hughpope.com/2023/08/01/rip-thomas-goltz-the-journalist-who-knew-no-limits/ |archive-date=2023-09-27 |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=Hugh Pope |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Thomas Caufield Goltz Obituary 2023 |url=https://www.franzen-davis.com/obituaries/thomas-goltz |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=Franzen-Davis Funeral Home, Crematory and Monument Company |language=en}}</ref> |
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Azerbaijani President [[Ilham Aliyev]] sent a condolences message to his family and described Goltz as "a great friend of Azerbaijan".<ref name="az-friend">{{cite web |url=https://president.az/en/articles/view/60660 |title=To the family of Thomas Goltz |date=29 July 2023 |website=President.az |access-date=29 July 2023}}</ref> |
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==Books== |
==Books== |
Revision as of 21:48, 30 October 2023
Thomas Goltz | |
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Born | Japan | October 11, 1954
Died | July 29, 2023 | (aged 68)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | New York University |
Occupation(s) | Journalist and author |
Thomas Goltz (October 11, 1954 – July 29, 2023) was an American author and journalist best known for his accounts of conflict in the Caucasus region during the 1990s. He spent 15 years in and around Turkey and Caucasus.[1]
Goltz has written news for most leading US publications, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. In-depth articles have appeared in Foreign Policy magazine, The National Interest, The Washington Quarterly and other broad-based magazines. In electronic media, he has worked on or produced video documentaries on a variety of topics for ABC/Nightline, BBC/Correspondent and CBS/60 Minutes.[2]
He directed and co-produced a documentary for Global Vision's Rights and Wrongs program[3] which was a finalist in the Rory Peck Award for excellence in television journalism in 1996[4][1][5]
After Goltz's death, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev sent a condolences message to his family and described Goltz as "a great friend of Azerbaijan".[6]
Early life
Thomas Goltz was born in Japan and raised in North Dakota. He graduated from New York University with an MA in Middle East studies.[1]
Career
He became known mainly as a crisis correspondent due to coverage of the first war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Karabakh, the war of secession in Abkhazia from Georgia and the separatist conflict in Chechnya.[1] Thomas de Waal, who was a friend of Goltz and praised Azerbaijan Diary for being informational on Azerbaijani society, admitted Goltz had a pro-Azerbaijan bias and that his book "doesn’t actually tell you that much about the war in Karabagh".[7]
Goltz claimed to have seen 479 corpses from the Khojaly massacre at the morgue in Aghdam, however only 181 corpses in Aghdam were forensically examined. Vahram Atanesyan has speculated that, because there was no electronic communication within Azerbaijan at the time, it is likely that Goltz's report that was published by The Washington Post had been delivered the Turkish embassy in Washington.[8] Goltz's eyewitness account also included graphic killings of alleged Azerbaijani victims whose names did not appear on the official list of deaths complied by Azerbaijan.[9]
On August 22, 2000, Goltz carried the symbolic “first barrel of oil” from Baku, Azerbaijan with IMZ sidecar motorcycle, to Ceyhan, Turkey with other 25 riders. They used to future Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline route at the time. The aim was to draw attention to this mega project which symbolizes both Azerbaijan's and Georgia's (country) economic independence.[10][11]
He lectured at most leading US universities including Columbia, Georgetown, Berkeley, Northwestern, Princeton, etc and foreign policy-related institutes in Azerbaijan, Canada, Georgia, the United Kingdom and the United States.[2] Other than that he was also professor in Montana State University.[12] In 2020, he was awarded an honorary PhD by the ADA University.[13]
Personal life
He married to Turkish national Hicran Oge in 1984 in Istanbul, Turkey.[14]
Goltz fluently spoke English, German, Turkish, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Russian and Japanese.[1]
Controversy
The Armenian National Committee of Canada accused Goltz of racism in March 2009 for remarks made at a lecture sponsored by Assembly of Azerbaijani-Canadian Organizations. According to the Armenian National Committee, Goltz characterized the Armenian inhabitants of Nagorno-Karabakh as "garlic-growing Armenians", and selectively mentioned instances of ethnic cleansing by Armenians against Azerbaijanis while omitting mention of cases of ethnic cleansing of Armenians by Azerbaijanis.[15]
Goltz has referred to Sumgait, Kirovabad, and Baku pogroms, in which Armenian civilians were massacred by Azerbaijanis, as "so-called pogroms".[16] Goltz endorsed an Azerbaijani conspiracy theory that the Sumgait pogrom was "a KGB plot hatched by agent provocateurs to ratchet up the intercommunal violence".[17]
Death
Thomas Goltz died on July 29, 2023, at the age of 68 after a long illness.[18][19][14]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev sent a condolences message to his family and described Goltz as "a great friend of Azerbaijan".[6]
Books
- Requiem for a would-be republic (1994)[20][21]
- Azerbaijan Diary (1998)[22]
- Oil Odyssey (2000)[11][23][24][25]
- Chechnya Diary (2003)[26][27]
- Georgia Diary (2006)[28]
- Assassinating Shakespeare (2006)[14]
- Türkiye Diary ('The Bridge') (2020)[29][30]
- Zakhrafa : Memories of a disappearing Middle East (2021)[31][32]
References
- ^ a b c d e Gausan, Robert. "Thomas Goltz - Biography". IMDb. Archived from the original on 2023-09-27. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
- ^ a b "Thomas Goltz: books, biography, latest update". Amazon.com. Archived from the original on 2023-09-27. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
- ^ "Rights and Wrongs Series: Europe, Chechnya: Russia's Human Rights Nightmare | Alexander Street, part of Clarivate". search.alexanderstreet.com. Archived from the original on 2023-09-27. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
- ^ Goltz, Thomas (1996-12-29). "U.S. Quietly Abandons the Kurds of Northern Iraq". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2023-09-27. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
- ^ "News Award". The Rory Peck Trust. Archived from the original on 2023-06-08. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
- ^ a b "To the family of Thomas Goltz". President.az. 29 July 2023. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
- ^ "AN INTERVIEW WITH THOMAS DE WAAL". Onnik Krikorian. 16 April 2002. Archived from the original on March 19, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
- ^ Atanesyan, Vahram (25 July 2013). "Thomas Goltz: The Godfather of the Legend of the "Khojaly Genocide"". Horizon Weekly. Archived from the original on 6 February 2023. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
- ^ "Pro-Azerbaijani propagandist Thomas Goltz caught on falsifications of 1992 Aghdam events". Panorama. 26 February 2016. Archived from the original on 24 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
- ^ "Oil Odyssey 2000". Azerbaijan International: 60–61. 2001.
- ^ a b "Oil Odyssey". Amazon. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
- ^ "Thomas Goltz | Pulitzer Center". Pulitzer Center. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
- ^ TheEditor (2021-06-15). "American author Goltz: Eccentric regional icon still at it". The Tribune. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
- ^ a b c "Thomas Caufield Goltz Obituary 2023". Franzen-Davis Funeral Home, Crematory and Monument Company. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
- ^ ‘Let the garlic-growing Armenians beg to join you [Azerbaijan’]
- ^ Goltz 1998, p. xv.
- ^ Goltz 1998, chpt. 4.
- ^ American writer Thomas Goltz who wrote about Khojaly tragedy passed away
- ^ Pope, Hugh (2023-08-01). "RIP Thomas Goltz, the journalist who knew no limits". Hugh Pope. Archived from the original on 2023-09-27. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
- ^ Requiem for a would-be republic: The rise and demise of the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan : a personal account of the years 1991-1993. Istanbul: The Isis Press. 1994-01-01. ISBN 978-975-428-068-5.
- ^ Goltz, Thomas Caufield (1994). Requiem for a would-be republic : the rise and demise of the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan ; a personal account of the years 1991 - 1993 (1. publ. ed.). ISBN 978-975-428-068-5.
- ^ "Azerbaijan Diary: A Rogue Reporter's Adventures in an Oil-rich, War-torn, Post-Soviet Republic". Amazon. Archived from the original on 2023-09-27. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
- ^ Abdel-Hassan, Mohamed Aziz (2018-01-30). "Geopolitical dimensions to build the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline and the Nabucco gas pipeline to Western Europe". International Journal of Multidisciplinary and Current Research. 6 (1). doi:10.14741/ijmcr.v6i01.10909. ISSN 2321-3124.
- ^ "An Oil Odyssey". 2021-02-07. Archived from the original on 2023-03-26. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
- ^ "Oil Odyssey by Thomas Goltz, Judy Gunderson-Muncy". app.thestorygraph.com. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
- ^ CHECHNYA DIARY | Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ Chechnya Diary: A War Correspondent's Story of Surviving the War in Chechnya. ISBN 0312268742.
- ^ "Georgia Diary: A Chronicle of War and Political Chaos in the Post-Soviet Caucasus". Amazon. Archived from the original on 2023-09-27. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
- ^ "Amazon.com: Türkiye Diary ('The Bridge'): Forty Years Of Intimate Association With A Wayward US Eurasian Ally eBook : Goltz, Thomas: Kindle Store". Amazon. Archived from the original on 2023-09-27.
- ^ Chaffetz, David (2020-11-30). ""Türkiye Diary (The Bridge): Forty Years Of Intimate Association With A Wayward US Eurasian Ally" by Thomas Goltz". Archived from the original on 2022-11-25. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
- ^ Zakhrafa : Memories of a disappearing Middle East. New Silk Road LLC / Publishing. 2021-09-01.
- ^ "Zakhrafa". 2021-08-29. Retrieved 2023-09-27.