Müsavat Partiyası

Müsavat Partiyası equality party
Party leader	İsa Qəmbər (since 1992 )
founding	1911 (founded in 1989 )
Place of foundation	Baku , Russian Empire
Headquarters	Baku, Azerbaijan
Alignment	Modern: National liberalism Social liberalism Economic liberalism Historic: Pan-Turkism Classical liberalism
Colours)	blue
International connections	Liberal International (LI)
European party	Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE)
Website	www.musavat.com (Azerbaijani)

Historical flag of the Müsavat party

The Equality Party , also Müsawat ( Azerbaijani Müsavat Partiyası ), is the oldest Azerbaijani political party . It first existed from 1911 to 1923 and led the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan, which existed from 1918 to 1920, and in 1989 Müsawat was re-established. As an opposition party, it has not received any seats since 2010.

The current chairman is İsa Qəmbər . The ideology is liberalism , the Müsawat orients itself towards the middle of the party spectrum. In the last parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, only a few seats went to the Müsawat party.

Content profile

The poet and screenwriter Jafar Jabbarli worked underground for the Müsawat

The party's initial program was and is aimed particularly at the Azerbaijanis and Muslims :

1. The unity of all Muslims regardless of nationality
2. Restoring the independence of all Muslim nations
3. Expand material and moral aid to all Muslim nations struggling for independence
4. Aid for all Muslims and Islamic states
5. The destruction of all barriers that prevent the ideas mentioned above from spreading
6. Developing contact with other parties that seek progress for Muslims
7. If necessary, the development of contact and exchange of views with other parties who have the well-being of humanity as their intention
8. In general, the aggravation of the effort for the existence of all Muslims and the further development of transport, trade and economy among them

history

The Müsavat party was founded in 1911 in Baku in what was then the Russian Empire under the name of the Muslim Democratic Equality Party . The initiative to found the party came from Məhəmməd Əmin Rəsulzadə , who, however, lived in exile in Istanbul .

Before the First World War, the party had a low membership and operated from the underground. Although the party was pan - Turkish , the party supported the tsarist regime in World War I.

After the collapse of the Tsarist government and the establishment of the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic , the Müsawat was the dominant political party in the newly independent state. However, at that time the party was more nationalist, socialist and secular. In 1919, Azerbaijan became the first Islamic state to introduce women's suffrage.

During the period when Azerbaijan was incorporated into the Transcaucasian Federal Socialist Soviet Republic , the leading party supporters had to operate in exile and from abroad. In the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic it had practically no meaning and was banned. In 1989 Azerbaijani intellectuals founded the New Müsawat , which merged with the party in exile in November 1992.

Web links

• Official website of the party (Azerbaijani)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Foreign Office: Political Development of Azerbaijan
2. ↑ Мирза Давуд Гусейнов: Тюркская демократическая партия федералистов "Мусават" в прошлом ищемт . Baku 1927, 1: Программа и тактика.
3. ↑ Maryam Orujlu: Müsavat Partiyası: Ölkədə və Mühacirətdə, 1911-1992 . Azerneshr, Baku 2001 (Azerbaijani, kitabxana.org - MA Resuloğlu (1962). Müsavat Partisinin kuruluşu ; Müsavat bülteni 14, Istanbul, 10). Müsavat Partiyası: Ölkədə və Mühacirətdə, 1911–1992 ( Memento of the original dated May 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Firouzeh Mostashari: On the Religious Frontier: Tsarist Russia and Islam in the Caucasus . IBTauris, 2006, ISBN 1-85043-771-8 , pp. 144 .
5. ↑ US Suffrage Movement Timeline, from 1792 to the present ; ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership (accessed August 19, 2006) 
6. ^ Tadeusz Swietochowski : Russian and Azerbaijan: A Borderland in Transition . Columbia University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-231-07068-3 , pp. 130 .