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 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. The Soviet-supported Tudeh Party dissolved its Azerbaijan chapter and ordered its members to join the ADP. 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