Azerbaijan People's Republic and its legal successor the Republic of Azerbaijan. Are there any differences?

Baku/28.05.22/Turan: May 28, 1918 marks the 104th anniversary of the formation of the Azerbaijan People's Republic (APR), the first secular democratic state in the Muslim East.

Azerbaijan People's Republic (APR) founded by Mammad Emin Rasulzade, Fatali Khan Khoyski, Khalil-bey Khasmamedov, Nasib-bey Usubbekov, Mir Gidayat Seyidov, Nariman-bey Narimanbekov, Eibat Guli Mamedbekov, Mehdi-bey Hajinsky, Ali Asker-bey Mahmudbekov, Aslan-bey Kardashev, Akberagha Sheikhulislamov, Mehdi-bey Hajibababekov, Mammad Yusif Jafarov, Khudadat-bey Melik-Aslanov, Rahim-bey Vekilov, Hamid-bey Shakhtakhtinsky, Firidun-bey Kocharlinsky, Jamo-bey Hajinsky, Shafi-bey Rustambekov, Khosrov Pasha-bey Sultanov, Magomet Maharramov, Javad Melik-Yeganov, Haji Molla Selim Akhundzade, was the first parliamentary republic in the Turkic-Islamic world and the first example of a democratic, legal and secular state.

The APR was able to operate in a tense and difficult socio-political environment for only 23 months. With the collapse of the Soviet empire in 1991, Azerbaijan again declared its independence. The Independent Azerbaijan Republic (AR) is the legal successor of the Azerbaijan People's Republic.

Are there any differences between ANR and its successor, AR?

Historian, chairman of the National Council of Democratic Forces Jamil Hasanli will tell about this in the “Difficult Question" program.

According to him, there is a deep abyss between the APR and the AR. “The Constitutional Act of the Republic of Azerbaijan “On the Restoration of the State Independence of the Republic of Azerbaijan” (No. 222-XII dated October 18, 1991) states that the Azerbaijan Republic is the legal successor of the Azerbaijan Republic. Formally, this is so, but from a moral point of view, there can be no question of any continuity,” Hasanli says.

He noted that unlike the AR, the APR was not a kleptocracy. “Prime Minister of the APR Nasi-bey Usubbekov, in order to provide for his children, wrote a letter to his father in which he asked him to sell his real estate and send him money. The leaders of modern Azerbaijan buy real estate, property for billions for their offspring in different countries of the world. They direct budgetary and non-budgetary funds to meet the needs of their families,” he stressed.

According to him, the founding fathers were ready to sacrifice everything and sacrificed to create a Republic, to create a nation. The leaders of the country, which is considered the successor of the APR, use independence for enrichment, robbery.

"Azerbaijan is mentioned in many corruption scandals," the historian noted.

According to Hasanly, in 1919, the British High Commissioner for the Caucasus, Oliver Wardrop, wrote in a ciphered telegram to the Foreign Office: “A republic was founded here, which could become a model for new countries emerging in Europe after the First World War. management model. “Today, Azerbaijan is a model of corruption for the world,” Hasanli says.--0-