Lachin Kurdish Republic

The Kurdish Republic of Lachin ( nordkurdisch Komara Laçin Kurdî ) was proclaimed on 20 May 1992 in the Azerbaijani district Laçin, two days after the territory of the Azerbaijan SSR was conquered during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict by Armenian units; the population was thereby minimized by emigration mostly.

The idea to implement a resettlement of the entity of the Red Kurdistan in the 1920s, in principle, was placed by the Armenians in the space for which the Lachin corridor formed a strategically important link to Nagorno-Karabakh. However, the small Kurdish population of the area pulled together to ethnic Azeris to - most Zuflicht found in other regions of Azerbaijan. Therefore, the Kurdish youth and intellectuals were (a total of about 70 people), which established a republic, transported provided by the Yerevan City Council buses from Armenia to Laçin. The scene was seen by political observers more than a wedding reception as the proclamation of a state.

After the declaration of the Republic through these busloads of visitors no international recognition initiative was born, and instead to settle in the territory of the Kurds, Lachin was repopulated over time by Armenians.

Government

The Prime Minister of the Republic, wekil Mustafayev, had according to the press releases " the days of the Soviet Union in Central Asia worked during a senior KGB officer. He was born into a family that was exiled to Uzbekistan. His wife served as officer in the Soviet military. " Scheref e Eschir was appointed Deputy Prime Minister, while other cabinet positions Karlan e Chachani included as designated Minister of Culture and Emerike Serdar as Information Minister. Five years later, Serdar was quoted as saying: "We knew all too well that the Armenians would never give us the land, and that we would never be capable to convince the Kurds to come here and entvölkeren in the account of the war to settle estates. however We went to Lachin, to post a milestone in history. "

After the failure of the Republic wekil Mustafayev moved to Krasnodar and applied for asylum later in Italy.