Category: History
103 years passes since liberation of Baku by Caucasian Islamic Army
On September 15, Azerbaijan marks the 103rd anniversary of Baku’s liberation from the Bolshevik-Dashnak occupation. On this day in 1918, the Islamic Army of the ... Read More
They Run Because They Know the Facts: Ottoman Archives Are the Most Reliable
Senior Advisor to the President, Prof. Seyit Sertçelik said that the Armenians avoid the establishment of a joint history commission to investigate the "so-called genocide" ... Read More
The Ottoman Relocations of Armenians 1915
“Armenian genocide” day is commemorated on 24th April each year. However, it is unlikely anybody actually died on this day in 1915. What happened was ... Read More
On the Zangezur Question – Part Two
As 1919 gave way to 1920 the Government of the Azerbaijan Republic faced the same old problem in Zangezur, with the infiltration of Armenian armed ... Read More
On the Zangezur Question – Part One
Azerbaijan's state archive possesses numerous documents from the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic's Extraordinary Investigation Commission on the massacres perpetrated against Azerbaijanis in the Zangezur region between ... Read More
‘I don’t even know if my home still exists.’
The first Nagorno-Karabakh war displaced more than a million people in the southern Caucasus. After the second one, is there anything for them to return ... Read More
Azerbaijan Armed Forces Entered Shurnukh
The village of Shurnukh in the historical Zangezur district (later renamed Syunik), where the delimitation works are being carried out, has come under the control ... Read More