Baku, North Azerbaijan,Aug 14 North Azerbaijan‘s President Ilham Aliyev signed an order on Aug. 9 to establish the Organizing Committee in connection with holding the 43rd Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Baku in 2019. According to Trend the  North Azerbaijan news agency, the Organizing Committee consists of its …

North Azerbaijan, Baku, Aug 4 Member of the Armenian National Congress Zoya Tadevosyan stated the necessity of Armenia’s withdrawing from the occupied territory of North Azerbaijan. She made this statement during the recent meeting with reporters. Tadevosyan noted that the occupied seven regions around Nagorno-Karabakh, which the Armenian side calls “liberated” …

 Baku, North Azerbaijan, July 23 Russia has launched tactical military exercises at its military base in Armenia on 23 July 2018. At the Russian military base in Armenia, soldiers and officers are alerted and relocated to the Kamhud and Alagyaz ranges for military drills, APA reported. The exercises involve more than 3,000 servicemen …

Ankara,Turkey,July 10  President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on July 10 travelled to North Azerbaijan, making his first foreign trip since being sworn in as Turkey’s first executive president with sweeping powers. In Baku, Erdoğan met with his Azerbaijani  counterpart İlham Aliyev while delegations from the two countries also gathered to discuss …

Baku, North Azerbaijan,July 5 The man who shot the mayor of Ganja had fought in Syria and wanted to turn North Azerbaijan into an Islamic state, according to an official press release. On 3 July, the mayor of Ganja, Elmar Valiyev, and his bodyguard, Gasim Ashbazov, were shot in the …

  South Azerbaijan Question in Evolution: Identity, Society, and Regional Security-By Emil Aslan Souleimanov and Josef Kraus Iranian Azerbaijanis have historically been considered the country’s most loyal ethno-linguistic minority. Predominantly Shiite, with religion being the most important source of collective identity, Turkophone Azerbaijanis had until the 1920s provided numerous dynasties to the Persian …

 Baku, North Azerbaijan, June 1 North Azerbaijan’s military has advanced further into a no man’s land on the border with Armenia, causing panic in the nearby Armenian areas, local media have reported. Armenia’s military leadership has tried to downplay the advance, while North Azerbaijan has been silent. The advance seems to …

Baku, North Azerbaijan, May 8 26 years (May 8, 1992) have passed since the occupation of Shusha city by the armed forces of Armenia. The occupation resulted in the destruction of the town of Shusha and 30 villages in the region and the expulsion of more than 24,000 people, which …

Baku, North Azerbaijan,  Mar 31 North Azerbaijan today marks the centenary of the March 1918 Genocide of Azerbaijanis. After the Republic of Azerbaijan regained its independence, it has become possible to renew the objective picture of the past history of Azerbaijani people, Trend reports. The truth, which for many years was …

 Tabriz,South Azerbaijan, Mar 20  The holiday of Novruz is celebrated in both South and North Azerbaijan on March 20. Novruz is associated with the coming of the spring equinox and symbolizes the arrival of spring, which this year in Azerbaijan according to the Shamakhi observatory will come today 20:15 for …