<td><small><div style="background:#fee8ab;">[[Rəşid Behbudov]]</small></td>

<td><small><div style="background:#fee8ab;">[[Əzizə Mustafazadə]]</small></td>

|ərazi1 = {{IRN}}

|sayı1 = 20,0–26,7 milyon <br/>25-33%

 

|qeyd =

'''Azərbaycanlılar''' ({{Dil-az2|آذربایجانلیلار}})<ref>{{ASE|1|180}}</ref><ref name="azerbaijanci">{{BSE|http://gatchina3000.ru/great-soviet-encyclopedia/bse/003/058.htm|başlıq=Азербайджанцы}}</ref><ref>Helena Bani-Shoraka. «Language Policy and Language Planning: Some Definitions» in [http://books.google.com/books?id=rkRC5G2qMzMC&pg=PA144 Annika Rabo, Bo Utas. ''The Role of the State in West Asia'', Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 2005, ISBN 91-86884-13-1, 9789186884130, p. 144]</ref><ref name="harvard">Stephan Thernstrom, Ann Orlov, Oscar Handlin. [http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA171 ''Harvard Encyclopedia of American ethnic groups'', Harvard University Press, 1981, p. 171], quote: ''In their homeland the Azerbaijanis, or Azeri Turks as they are sometimes called…''</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Mark R. Beissinger; Nader Entessar; Edward Friedman; Solomon Gashaw; Noel Jacob Kent; Alan LeBaron; Herbert S.Lewis; James Quirin; Virginia Sapiro; Ronald J. Schmidt; Douglas Spitz; Tekle M. Woldemikael; Crawford Young|year=1993|url=http://books.google.ru/books?id=rltc46FaQsYC&pg=PA116&dq=Azeri+Turkification&hl=ru&sa=X&ei=NOlqVKGrJaP6ywOD2ICIBw&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Azeri%20Turkification&f=false|title=Azeri Nationalism in the Former Soviet Union and Iran|publisher=The University of Wisconsin Press|page=116|}}</ref><ref>[http://www.khazaria.com/genetics/azeris.html Azeri (Azerbaijani) Genetics: Abstracts and Summaries]</ref><ref>[http://sam.gov.tr/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/6.-ETHNIC-SITUATION-IN-THE-CAUCASUS.pdf ETHNIC SITUATION IN THE CAUCASUS. Rauf A. Guseynov]</ref><ref>[http://miskinhill.com.au/journals/asees/19:1-2/language-policy-status-of-russian.pdf Ayse Pamir Dietrich Language Policy and the Status of Russian in the Soviet Union and the Successor States outside the Russian Federation. p. 2.]</ref><ref>[http://www.ca-c.org/journal/2003/journal_eng/cac-04/18.orueng.shtml Gidaiat Orudzhev, D.Sc. (Philol.), Azerbaijani State Nationalities Policy Adviser (Baku, Azerbaijan)]</ref><ref>[http://www.ca-c.org/journal/2000/journal_eng/eng04_2000/22.kisr.shtml "Daghestan: Factors of conflicts and stability". Enver Kisriev, professor, Daghestan Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), (Makhachkala, Russian Federation)]</ref><ref>[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02634938408400464?journalCode=ccas20#.VGrxgcaOPi8 The Azeris in Georgia and the Ingilos: Ethnic minorities in the limelight]</ref><ref>[http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/issuedetails.aspx?issueid=504b0001-e271-4187-83aa-f375e3dbc53d&articleId=1c3d78c8-2ac2-4758-ad5b-017f0f631a49 South Caucasus: Common Ground]</ref><ref>[http://www.gab-bn.com/IMG/pdf/Az3-_A_Northern_Neighbor_Growls_and_Azerbaijan_Reassesses_Its_Options.pdf Sabrina Tavernise. The New York Times – 22.10.2008]</ref><ref>[http://iranian.com/Opinion/2002/August/Azeri/ Who are Azeris?]</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title = The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and Identity under Russian Rule|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=7eyoAAAAQBAJ|publisher = Hoover Press|date = 2013-09-01|isbn = 9780817991838|first = Audrey L.|last = Alstadt}}</ref> — əsasən [[Cənubi Azərbaycan|İranın şimal-qərbi]]ni əhatə edən [[Cənubi Azərbaycan]]da və [[Azərbaycan Respublikası]]nda yaşayan [[türk]] etnik qruplarından biri.<ref>{{cite book|author=Svante E. Cornell|title=Azerbaijan Since Independence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TaZzCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA7 |date=20 May 2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-47621-4|page=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Barbara A. West|title=Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pCiNqFj3MQsC&pg=PA68|date=1 January 2009|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-1913-7|page=68}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=James Minahan|title=Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: S-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zu5GpDby9H0C&pg=PA1766|date=1 January 2002|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-32384-3|page=1766}}</ref> Azərbaycanlılar [[Anadolu türkləri]]ndən sonra ən çoxsaylı [[Türk xalqları|türk etnik qrupu]]dur.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Azerbaijani-people|title=Azerbaijani {{!}} people|newspaper=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=2016-11-03}}</ref>