Azerbaijani Democratic Party

Not to be confused with Azerbaijan Democrat Party.

The Azerbaijan Democratic Party (Azerbaijani: آذربایجان دموکرات فرقه‌سی, romanized: Azərbaycan Demokrat Firqəsi; Persian: فرقه دموکرات آذربایجان, romanized: Ferqa-ye demokrāt-e Āzarbāyjān) was a pro-Soviet, separatist, and pan-Turkist^{[citation needed]} party founded by Jafar Pishevari in Tabriz, Iran, in September 1945.^[6][5] It depended on the Soviet Union and was supported by it.^[6] The ADP was founded as an opposition party against the Pahlavi dynasty.^{[citation needed]} The Azerbaijani branch of the Soviet-supported Tudeh Party immediately defected to the ADP.^[7] The ADP, like the Tudeh Party, was communist and pro-Soviet, but emphasized questions of ethnic identity over class identity. The ADP ruled the Soviet-backed Azerbaijan People's Government from 1945 until 1946 with Pishevari as premier.

Azerbaijani Democratic Party آذربایجان دموکرات فرقه‌سی
Leader	Jafar Pishevari
Chairman	Ghulam Yahya Daneshian[1]
Founder	Mir Jafar Baghirov[2]
Founded	3 September 1945[2]
Dissolved	1960[1]
Split from	Tudeh Party of Iran
Merged into	Tudeh Party of Iran[1]
Headquarters	Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR (1946–60)[2] Tabriz, Iran (1945–46)[2]
Ideology	Azerbaijani nationalism[3] Left-wing nationalism Communism Marxism-Leninism Pan-Turkism[4] Separatism[5]
Political position	Far-left
Politics of Iran Political parties Elections

See also

• Iran crisis of 1946
• Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran

References

1. Abrahamian, Ervand (1982), Iran Between Two Revolutions, Princeton University Press, p. 455, ISBN 0-691-10134-5
2. Ahmadoghlu, Ramin (2019), "Azerbaijani National Identity in Iran, 1921–1946: Roots, Development, and Limits", The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, 10 (3): 253–278, doi:10.1080/21520844.2019.1656455, S2CID 204368556
3. Yolaçan, Serkan (2019), "Azeri networks through thick and thin: West Asian politics from a diasporic eye", Journal of Eurasian Studies, 10 (1): 36–47, doi:10.1177/1879366518814936
4. Ahmadi, Hamid (2017). "The Clash of Nationalisms: Iranian response to Baku's irredentism". In Kamrava, Mehran (ed.). The Great Game in West Asia: Iran, Turkey and the South Caucasus. Oxford University Press. p. 121. ISBN 978-0190869663.
5. Bonakdarian, Mansour (2022). "ḴIĀBĀNI, SHAIKH MOḤAMMAD". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Online Edition. Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation.
6. Ahmadi, Hamid (2017). "The Clash of Nationalisms: Iranian response to Baku's irredentism". In Kamrava, Mehran (ed.). The Great Game in West Asia: Iran, Turkey and the South Caucasus. Oxford University Press. p. 109, 121. ISBN 978-0190869663.
7. Shaffer, Brenda (2002). Borders and brethren: Iran and the challenge of Azerbaijani identity. MIT Press. pp. 59–60.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)