Azerbaijan National Revival Day
Subject: The History of Azerbaijan
Faculty: Information Technologies and Control
Speciality: Instrumentation engineering
Student: Guluzade Taleh
Group: 614.23E
Instructor: Hesenova Cemile
Azerbaijan's
Revival Day
National Revival Day: is a national holiday celebrated
in Azerbaijan every year on the 17th of November.[1]
Since 1992, 17 November has been celebrated as a
National Revival Day in the country. It is related to the
events in Baku in November-December 1988. As a
result of the Soviet leadership's anti-Azerbaijani policy
around the Karabakh issue, the anti-Soviet people's
movement was formed in Azerbaijan at the end of the
80s of the 20th century.
What was this rally for?
On the first days of 1988, Armenia started its evident
attack against Azerbaijan. Basing on the indifferent
attitude of Moscow and particularly of [Link], the
head of the USSR, Armenians started to plan mass
deportation of Azerbaijanis from their native lands in
Armenia under the direction of the Armenian government.
Above 200 000 Azerbaijanis were deported from their
homes, killed, and burned by the Armenians. There was
no reaction to the Armenian vandalism by M. Gorbachov
and his surrounding. In early February 1988 Armenians
carried out revolts in the region Nagorny Karabakh of
Azerbaijan and even raise a question to join those lands
to Armenia.
The people of Azerbaijan expressed their protest to the
government. Slogans, portraits, and flags carried by the
Azerbaijani citizens proved their belief to Moscow and
local authorities at that time.
The demands of the
November 17 rally:
1. The government of Azerbaijan should give a firm warning to Armenia that it will cut off economic relations.
The television will broadcast live what is being done in Topkhana.
2. Curfew in Aghdam city should be canceled within 24 hours.
3. Party and Soviet bodies should be dissolved in the Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan's legal, political and
economic norms should be restored there.
4. 63 deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, who will participate in the session opened in November,
should provide information about this. Otherwise, it is not appropriate for them to return to Azerbaijan. We have
given time until 6 o'clock in the evening...
5. If our condition of staying here and staying overnight is not met within 24 hours, the demonstration will be
extended indefinitely.
During the rally, the will was being stretched in other regions
The forces that wanted to put pressure on Moscow
and seize power in the republics tried to use this. In
some districts of Baku, the situation was deliberately
aggravated and hooliganism was committed. The
building of state bodies was attacked in Nakhchivan,
on November 22, a bloody clash between the
population and the army took place in Ganja, 160
people were injured, three soldiers and a child were
killed. On November 24, a special state and curfew
were imposed in the cities of Baku, Nakhchivan and
Ganja.
The victory of the people of
the year
On November 19, the flag of the Azerbaijan People's Republic,
which existed for the first time in 1918-1920, was raised here.
Every day, hundreds of thousands of people passed through
tanks and soldiers and flocked to the square. Often, the number
of rallying participants exceeded a million people. At night,
thousands of people stayed around the bonfires left in the
square. The people had already achieved the possible result
with the rally. The country's leadership knew the attitude of the
Azerbaijani people to the current problem. However, no
measures were taken against Armenian nationalism and
separatism
THANKS FOR ATTENTION
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