Mammed Amin Rasulzade
Source: National Archives & Historic Records of Azerbaijan
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Mammed Amin Rasulzade 🌐

Məhəmməd Əmin Rəsulzadə (Known as "Rasulzade")
Founding Father and Head of the National Council of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (1918)
Born 1884-01-31 🌐 Novkhani, Baku, Azerbaijan
Passed Away 1955-03-06 Ankara, Turkey
Lifespan 71 years old
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"The flag once raised shall never fall! (Bir kərə yüksələn bayraq, bir daha enməz!)"

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Statesman, journalist, and founding father of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1918—the first secular democratic republic in the Muslim world—author of 'The flag once raised will never fall!'

Biographical Record

Mammed Amin Rasulzade was born on January 31, 1884, in Novkhani near Baku. An active political journalist from his youth, Rasulzade played a leading role in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905 before founding the Musavat party in Baku in 1911.

On May 28, 1918, Rasulzade proclaimed the independence of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR), serving as Chairman of the National Council. The ADR established universal suffrage (including women's right to vote, ahead of most Western nations), a multiparty parliament, and Baku State University. Following the Red Army invasion in 1920, Rasulzade escaped into lifelong political exile, dying in Ankara in 1955.

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Asri Cemetery
Ankara, Turkey
GPS: 39.9520, 32.8870
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