Veteran rights activist Mr.Aziz Purvali, accompanying other South Azerbaijani activists visited South South Azerbaijani political prisoner Mr. Ayat (Yurush) Mehralibeyglou’s family. On the occasion of Mr.Mehralibeyglou’s birthday, Mr.Purvali and some other activists visited his home in the city of Sofiyan....
Warplanes pounded Houthi rebel targets in Yemen on Thursday, two days after what was supposed to be the official end of the Saudi Arabia-led bombing campaign. Witnesses said the raids hit areas around the main southern port city of Aden,...
Araz News: 1811 South Azerbaijani university students have written a letter to Iranian president Mr. Rouhani underlining the demand of education in Azerbaijani Turkish in state schools and recognizing Azerbaijani Turkish as official language. According to South Azerbaijani sources students...
Araz News: According to Araz News web site’s Farsi service central government’s pressure on South Azerbaijani activists and local officials escalates even after Ferdowsi’s statue came back upon order of the minister of the interior affairs. After statue and name...
Araz News: South Azerbaijani activist Hossein Ali Mohammadi has been arrested by security forces in Tabriz on 01/03/2015. Reportedly security forces have arrested him in a greenhouse and have beaten him hardly by baton. They also shoot on guard dogs...
Araz News: South Azerbaijani Poet Ali Samad Pour who is serving 19th month of 2 year imprisonment term in prison of Sarab city of South Azerbaijan is in very bad health condition. He is suffering from chronic heart problems, high blood...
19.02.2015 Inclusive Education through and with Language — Language Matters 2015 marks the 15th anniversary of International Mother Language Day – this is also a turning point year for the international community, as the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals, when countries will...
The Khojaly Massacre Background In 1991 the small village of Khojaly, situated in the Nagorno Karabakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan, had a population of just 6,300 people. In October of that year, in the midst of the Nagorno...
Araz News: Debates on a removed statue of old Persian poet Ferdowsi get hard. After municipality of Salmas city of South Azerbaijan (Western Azerbaijan Province) changed name of “Ferdowsi Square” to “Enghelab (Revolution) Square” and removed statue of poet Ferdowsi...
Araz News: While South Azerbaijani activists celebrates International Mother Language Day by different ways Iranian security forces escalates pressure on the activists. South Azerbaijani sources report against official applications by Azerbaijani right activists and campaigns on media Iranian authorities refused...
ArazNews:Thousands of Ahwazi people have gathered on 14th of February in front of Ahwaz Governorate office in Ahwaz’s capital demanding swift actions to cope with the dust storm that has currently crippled lives of the Ahwazi people. Ahwazi protesters by...
Araz News: Iran’s former representative in FAO, Mr. Mohammad Said Nouri Naini has told if Lake Urmia would not rescued Tabriz and Urmia will have to be evacuated. According to semi-official Fars News Agency speaking in Water, Culture and Society...
Araz News: Deputy Governor of Eastern Azerbaijan province, responsible of political and security affairs, Mr. Said Shabestari told in a press conference: “We are Turks and say Long Live Azerbaijan”. Answering a question about Tractor football club and its fans...
Araz News: According to South Azerbaijani sources 19 South Azerbaijani right activists who were arrested in match between Tractor-Sazi football team of Azerbaijan and Al-Jazeera of UAE, all are sentenced to 3 months and 1 day in prison and 30...
In 1905-1911 in Tabriz, the national-liberation movement under the leadership of Sattar khan (Mashruta movement) had started. Soon this movement spread to all South Azerbaijan. Mashruta movement raised Sattar Khan up to the level of great commander. In 1907 while...
