Azerbaijan (newspaper)

Azərbaycan

Format	Berliner
Owner(s)	National Assembly of Azerbaijan
Editor-in-chief	Bakhtiyar Sadigov
Founded	1918 (1918)
Language	Azerbaijani
Relaunched	1991 (1991)
Headquarters	Baku, Azerbaijan
Circulation	10440 (2014)
Website	http://www.azerbaijan-news.az/

The Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan) is a state-owned newspaper and public journal published by the National Assembly of Azerbaijan.

    The official newspaper of the ADR government "Azerbaijan" was established in 1918. The government by its order of 3 July 1918, decided on the launch of the publication "the News of Azerbaijani Republic" under its official authority. Thus, the first issue of the "Azerbaijan" newspaper was published as the parliamentary paper on September 15, 1918, in the same day, when the Caucasus Islamic Army freed Baku from Armenian-Bolshevik invasion. One of the editors of the official government newspaper the Azerbaijan was Jeyhun bay Hajibeyli. The newspaper was published till December 28, 1919 with the signature of Uzeyir Hajibeyli's brother Jeyhun. There is no doubt   about his great contribution for the publication of the newspaper.  After the collapse of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic Jeyhun Hajibeyli, who was forced to leave the country and to immigrate to Europe, tried to issue the newspaper there and in 1951 he was able to archive his goal in Munich (Germany).

External links

• Azərbaycan official web site (Azerbaijani)