Ahmad bey Agaoglu and his work “In a country of free people”

Abstract

In the 19th and 20th centuries, the main representatives of the Azerbaijani press and literature, as in the whole Turkic world, considered fiction and publicist word as a means of struggle for the salvation of people who suffered from the czarism tyranny; they were able to create the best examples of combating by pen. Ahmed bey Agaoglu, who has created for the first time the organization “Difai” aiming to protect the Turks from Armenians, and worked for the freedom, development, and modernization of the people, has his particular place in the history of Azerbaijan’s struggle for independence. He was also the foreign affairs political advisor of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish Republic. The paper deals with the ideological features of Ahmed bey Agaoglu’s work “In a Country of Free People” published in Istanbul in 1930. A real free country, its basic laws, principles of life and the essence of freedom are thoroughly considered in this work.