Araz News: Two years after 6.4 Richter earthquake which struck Ahar and Varzeghan cities of South Azerbaijan many villagers still are living in containers and tents. The major earthquake took place on 11st August 2012. Toll of the quake was...
Araz News: Spiritual Father of South Azerbaijani Turks, Prof. Dr. Javad Heyat is buried in Baku, Capital of Republic of Azerbaijan. The funeral ceremony was held in building of Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan today 15th August. Many prominent figures...
Araz News: Spiritual father of South Azerbaijani Turks, Prof. Dr. Javad Heyat passed away on 13th August in a hospital in Baku, capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Prominent South Azerbaijani researcher, writer, turcologist and surgeon, Prof. Dr. Javad Heyat...
Araz News: South Azerbaijani Parliamentarian from Urmia, Nader Ghazi Pour criticized Iranian media and some so called art societies who insult ethnic identities in Iran and called authorities to prevent and punish them. In a speech in Iranian parliament (Islamic...
Araz News: An Iranian theater team named Shahr Ashub has apologized Azerbaijani people for an insulting play it had performed. The group has also changed the name of the play. The group was being performing a play named “Kharkator” which...
The National Resistance Organization of Azerbaijan (ANRO) recently published a documentary on the dire situation in Iraq and possible implications on the cities of South Azerbaijan (Northwestern Iran). According to ArazNews, thousands of copies of the report were...
Araz News: Municipality of Urmia, capital of West Azerbaijan Province, gives back old Turkic names of some neighborhoods. Several signboards are put at the entrance of city’s old neighborhoods carrying the old names. Municipality resources inform the act is carried...
Araz News: Gorbanali Saadat, governor of West Azerbaijan province expressed about 6 million people are living around Lake Urmia and unless something done for it these people will be forced to displace. South Azerbaijani website, Oyrenci Sesi (Voice of Student)...
Araz News: A committee of representatives of non-Persian nations and religious minorities in Iran met US secretary of state human rights officials in Washington DC on 24 July. Araz News correspondent from Washington DC reports that there were representatives of...
“Times of differences between world powers come and go”. Oxu.Az interviews Adil Baguirov, doctor of political science, co-founder and member of the directors’ board of the US Azeris Network and Karabakh Foundation (the United States). The US congressmen have recently...
Araz News: Azerbaijani right activists have visited Eastern Turkistan’s leader Mrs. Rebiya Kadeer in US capital, Washington DC. Azerbaijani activists shared current problems of South Azerbaijan with Mrs. Kadeer. Activists Mr. Zaur Bayramli, Babek Chalabiyanli, Babek Chalabiyanli, Taymaz Urmulu and...
Araz News: Prominent South Azerbaijani researcher, writer, turcologist and surgeon, Prof. Dr. Javad Heyat is in critical health condition. Reportedly, 89-year-old well-known figure is hospitalized in a hospital in Baku, capital of Republic of Azerbaijan. South Azerbaijani public follows his...
Araz News: NROA’s First Secretary Davud Turan wrote an open letter to Mohsen Rezai, Secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council of Iran. In response to an address made by Mr. Rezai to people of Azerbaijan, Mr. Turan, in an open...
Araz News: Nader Gazipour, parliamentarian of Urmia in Iranian parliament, in a press interview said: “The only investment by the government in our province was the sugar factory of Miandoab which was made by Defense Minister. Except that the government...
Araz News: Iranian president Hasan Rouhani issued an order to start Lake Urmia rescue operation. Oyrenci Sesi web site of South Azerbaijan reports, in a press conference on June 29, Mr. Rouhani, as head of the High Council of Environmental...
