IDPs

Khojaly residents to return home in May

Khojaly residents to return home in May

First residents will return to liberated Khojaly in May of this year, head of Khojaly District Executive Power Shahmar Usubov said. According to him, construction works are currently ongoing in Khojaly/ …

Azerbaijan to return 7,000 IDPs to liberated lands by end of 2023

Azerbaijan to return 7,000 IDPs to liberated lands by end of 2023

Azerbaijan plans to return a total of 7,000 IDPs to its liberated lands by the end of this year, Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Refugees and IDPs of Azerbaijan Fuad Huseynov said at the conference "Karabakh: Homecoming after 30 …

Khankendi to join "Big Return" process

Khankendi to join "Big Return" process

Chairman of Azerbaijan's State Committee for Refugees and IDPs, Rovshan Rzayev met with a group of IDPs from Khankendi on September 26. It was stressed at the meeting that purposeful work is being carried out towards the restoration …

Azerbaijani families return to Zabukh

Azerbaijani families return to Zabukh

A phased return of internally displaced persons to the village of Zabukh has begun in Azerbaijan. At the first stage, 20 families will be resettled, all of them will be provided with new apartments.

First residents return to Fuzuli

First residents return to Fuzuli

The first 23 families returned to the liberated city of Fizuli today. They were relocated from a residential complex in the Garadagh district of Baku. Previously, families had participated in a draw upon their return in the first stage.

Former internally displaced persons returning to Zabukh

Former internally displaced persons returning to Zabukh

The State Committee of Azerbaijan for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons held a draw among the families who will be resettled in the village of Zabukh in Azerbaijan’s Lachin district at the first stage, the Committee of Azerbaijan …

Another 23 families return to Lachin

Another 23 families return to Lachin

Another 23 families have been relocated to the city of Lachin - 85 people. In accordance with the instructions of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, the return of former internally displaced persons to the reconstructed city of Lachin …

Ilham Aliyev on resettling of over 400 former IDPs to Karabakh

Ilham Aliyev on resettling of over 400 former IDPs to Karabakh

Azerbaijan resettled over 400 former IDPs to the territories liberated from occupation, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said. Addressing heads of leading German companies in Berlin, President Ilham Aliyev stressed the priorities of …

Internally displaced Azerbaijanis prepare for "Great Return"

Internally displaced Azerbaijanis prepare for "Great Return"

Liberation of Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions of Azerbaijan from Armenia’s occupation in 2020 facilitates the solution to one of the longstanding and large-scale internal displacement situations in the world

Could international experience be applicable in Nagorno Karabakh?

Could international experience be applicable in Nagorno Karabakh?

The recent military flair up of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was ended on the 10th November by a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement after 44 days. The most important question in the years to come appears to be: Quo vadis, Nagorno-Karabakh? Azer Babayev* explores the role the international community can play in ensuring the current fragile peace lasts

'My childhood stood frozen in Kalbajar after occupation'

'My childhood stood frozen in Kalbajar after occupation'

A young Azerbaijani man recounted how he was eight years old when he was forced to leave Azerbaijan's Kalbajar region and didn't have a proper childhood since Armenian forces occupied the lands nearly three decades ago. "My childhood stood frozen there," Bazirgan Verdiyev told as he prepared to go back home, Anadolu Agency writes in the article 'My childhood stood frozen in Kalbajar after occupation'. Verdiyev, 36, who is currently doing his doctorate studies in the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul, said his childhood passed with the "bitter experience" of being an internally displaced person