Özet:

The issue of minorities is an important agenda in international relations. Specifically the massacres carried out during World War II required new regulations in international law on minority rights. The ethnic problems with the collapse of the Eastern Block and the Soviet Union have clearly shown that more regulations are needed in this regard. In the law of the Republic of Azerbaijan, which regained its independence in 1991, minority rights are generally regulated in the framework of ‘negative rights’ and ‘equality principle’. Although international documents relating to minorities have been signed in the process of integration into Europe, especially in the process of membership in the Council of Europe, no definition of minority has been made in the Azerbaijani law and no special law has been adopted. But in 1992, the National Minority in the Republic of Azerbaijan gave the President Ferman "positive" rights to minorities and small peoples on the protection of the rights and freedoms of minority peoples and ethnic groups, and on the state aid for the development of language and culture. This article will examine the basic provisions and documents relating to minorities in the Azerbaijani law and will provide general information on minority groups in the country.

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