Today is the day of the death of Muhammad Amin Rasulzadeh, a state and public figure, politician and publicist, one of the founders of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (1918-1920) and one of the leaders of its political emigration. SIA reminds that 68 years have passed since the death of Mohammad Amin Rasulzadeh.
Muhammad Amin Rasulzadeh was born on January 31, 1884 in Novkhani village of Baku. His father sent his son to the second “Russian-Muslim” school headed by the famous educator Sultan Majid Ganizadeh, and after graduating from this school, M.A. Rasulzadeh continued his education in Baku technical school, in Russian. The first years of our national independence movement and the revolutionary activities of Mohammad Amin Rasulzadeh, who laid the foundation stone of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, which was the first republican system not only in the Turkish lands, but in the entire Eastern and Islamic world, also coincide with this period. In 1902, M.A. Rasulzade, who was seventeen years old, founded the “Muslim Youth Organization”. It was the first political organization that secretly fought against the Russian colonial rule in Azerbaijan in the 20th century.
In the fall of 1917, M.A. Rasulzadeh was elected a deputy from Azerbaijan and Turkestan to the Russian parliament. On May 26, 1918, the Transcaucasia Seim was dissolved as a result of internal factional disputes. On the 27th of the same month, the National Council of Azerbaijan, consisting of members of various parties included in the Muslim faction of the Seym, was formed. M.A. Rasulzadeh was elected the chairman of the National Council by the majority of votes.
On May 28, 1918, radio stations and newspapers of all countries announced the declaration of Azerbaijan’s independence to the world. This meant that the people of Azerbaijan communicated their existence, their existence as a nation to all mankind and fully declared that they had established their national state. The government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was formed under the leadership of Fatali Khan Khoyski. Thus, the people of Azerbaijan established a republic not only among the Turkic peoples, but also for the first time in the whole East.
However, the life of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic lasted only 23 months. After the occupation of Azerbaijan by Soviet Russia on April 28, 1920, M.A. Rasulzade was forced to leave the homeland. M.A., who fought for the freedom of Azerbaijan abroad for many years. Rasulzadeh died of diabetes on March 6, 1955 in Ankara.
On December 24, 1992, the President of Azerbaijan, Abulfaz Elchibey, on the occasion of the birth of Muhammad Amin Rasulzadeh, signed an order “On the return of the family members of the prominent social and political figure M.A. Rasulzadeh, who were repressed during the totalitarian Soviet regime, to Azerbaijan and the solution of their social and household issues.”
On December 29, 1993, the President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev, signed a decree “On holding the 110th anniversary of the birth of M.A. Rasulzadeh, an outstanding social and political figure of Azerbaijan.”
Also, on November 22, 2013, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, signed a decree “On holding the 130th anniversary of Muhammad Amin Rasulzade”.
