In Azerbaijan on Saturday, November 9 celebrates the Day of the State Flag.
on the occasion of the State Flag Day in the country, various events will be organized.
The state flag of Azerbaijan is a rectangular panel consisting of three identical horizontally located colored stripes: the upper – blue, medium – red and lower – green color.
On both sides of the flag in the middle of the red strip there are a crescent and eight -pointed star of white color.
The modern state flag of Azerbaijan was established on November 9, 1918 at a meeting of the Government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (Adr). After the fall of the ADR and the arrival of Soviet power, on April 28, 1920, they refused the tricolor flag.
After the independence of the country on February 5, 1991, the Supreme Council of Azerbaijan declared a tricolor with an eight -pointed star and a crescent state flag of the Azerbaijan Republic.
The author of the formula “Turkism, Islamism and modernity”, which is expressed in three colors of the state flag of independent Azerbaijan and which covered the principle of three foundations of our national ideology at the beginning of the twentieth century, is an outstanding Azerbaijani thinker Ali Bek Huseynzade.
On November 17, 2009, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev signed an order “On the establishment of the State Flag Day of the Azerbaijan Republic”, and on December 4 of the same year, Milli Majlis (Parliament) officially approved on November 9 as the Day of the State Flag.
The head of state Ilham Aliyev and Vice President Mehriban Aliyev shared publications on the occasion of the State Flag on Social Networks.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey also congratulated Azerbaijan on the Day of the State Flag.
“Congratulations to the Brotherly Azerbaijan on November 9, the Day of the State Flag!”, The publication says in x.