Musavat Party (Azerbaijan)

Last modified: 2005-02-19 by ivan sache
Keywords: musavat party | crescents: 45 (white) | stars: 45 (white) |
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by Ivan Sache

• Presentation of Musavat Party
• Flag of Musavat Party
• Historical flags of Musavat Party

See also:

• Azerbaijan
• Republic of Azerbaijan, 1918-1920

Presentation of Musavat Party

The Musavat (Equality) party was founded in 1911 in Baku by the journalist Muhammad Amin Rasulzade.

Jaume Ollé, 2 November 1996

Flag of Musavat Party

On 2 August 2003, the Russian television channel NTV showed images from an opposition demonstration in Baku. Demonstrators carried the national flag of Azerbaijan and many light blue (azure) flags with a silver (not white) crescent and eight-pointed star in the middle. The arrangment of the crescent and star was the same as on the national flag of Azerbaijan. This is presumably, the flag of the Musavat Party, which has a Pan-Turkish ideology. Light blue/azure is a Pan-Turkish colour.
There were plenty (a few hundreds) of identical, well-made flags. These flags might have been produced in Turkey, which supports the Musavat party.

Mikhail Revnivtsev, 6 August 2003

Historical flags of Musavat Party

by Jaume Ollé

In 1918, the party adopted a light blue flag charged with 45 crescents and stars (the crescent pointing towards the hoist), in seven rows of 6,7,6,7,6,7,6 white crescent and stars. Then the party adopted a new flag, horizontally divided blue, red and green with a white crescent and star in the center, that was similar to the first national flag.

Jaume Ollé, 2 November 1996