Iranian Azerbaijanis Create Organization to Restore "National Government of Azerbaijan"

| News, Politics, Azerbaijan

A group of social and political figures from Iran-Azerbaijan said that they had established a new organization to restore the National Government of Azerbaijan, which was declared by the Azerbaijanis living in Iran in 1945-1946. They announced that on April 30, the online constituent meeting of the newly created South Azerbaijan National Council of Statehood would be held, the statement of the initiative group of the South Azerbaijan National Council of Statehood. The coordinator of the initiative group is Chingiz Goytürk. The initiative group includes Saleh Ildırım, the chairman of the South Azerbaijan Independence Party; Ahmet Obali, the Founder of Gunaz TV; Ajdar Tagızade, the chairman of the Democratic Turkish Party of South Azerbaijan; Sadiq Isabayli, a member of the Board of the National Liberation Front of South Azerbaijan, and others. The headquarters of the organization will be located in Finland.

The statement of the initiative group stated that the struggle of the South Azerbaijan National Council of Statehood is based on the national-political idea and rich experience of statehood, the basic principles of the All-Turk national ideology, and operates in the direction of the establishment of national statehood with the motto of Freedom, Justice, and National Government. The statement added that the National Council of Statehood is fighting to create a modern, democratic, secular-secular South Azerbaijan state.

Notably, on December 12, 1945, the National Government of Azerbaijan was announced in Tabriz, Iran. The national liberation movement that started in Iran-Azerbaijan after the Second World War ended on December 12, 1945, with the establishment of the National Government headed by Ja'far Pishevari. This event went down in history as the 21 Azer movement.

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