Azerbaijani Democratic Party

{{distinguish|Azerbaijan Democrat Party}}

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{{Infobox political party

| name = Azerbaijani Democratic Party

| native_name = آذربایجان دموکرات فرقه‌سی

| colorcode = Red

| split = Tudeh Party of Iran

| merged = Tudeh Party of Iran{{citation|last=Abrahamian|first=Ervand|year=1982|title=Iran Between Two Revolutions|isbn=0-691-10134-5|publisher=Princeton University Press|url=https://archive.org/details/iranbetweentwore00abra_0|url-access=registration|page=455}}

| dissolved = 1960

| chairman = Ghulam Yahya Daneshian

| leader = Jafar Pishevari

| foundation = 3 September 1945{{citation|first=Ramin|last=Ahmadoghlu|title=Azerbaijani National Identity in Iran, 1921–1946: Roots, Development, and Limits|journal=The Journal of the Middle East and Africa|year=2019|volume=10|number=3|pages=253–278|doi=10.1080/21520844.2019.1656455|s2cid=204368556 }}

| founder = Mir Jafar Baghirov

| ideology = Azerbaijani nationalism{{citation|first=Serkan|last=Yolaçan|title=Azeri networks through thick and thin: West Asian politics from a diasporic eye|journal=Journal of Eurasian Studies|year=2019|volume=10|number=1|pages=36–47|doi=10.1177/1879366518814936|doi-access=free}}
Left-wing nationalism
Communism
Marxism-Leninism
Pan-Turkism{{cite book |last1=Ahmadi |first1=Hamid |editor1-last=Kamrava |editor1-first=Mehran |title=The Great Game in West Asia: Iran, Turkey and the South Caucasus |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0190869663 |page=121 |chapter=The Clash of Nationalisms: Iranian response to Baku's irredentism}}
Separatism{{Encyclopædia Iranica Online|last=Bonakdarian|first=Mansour|title=ḴIĀBĀNI, SHAIKH MOḤAMMAD |url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-iranica-online/kiabani-shaikh-mohammad-COM_365329|year=2022}}

| position = Far-left

| country = Iran

| flag =

| logo =

| headquarters = Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR {{small|(1946–60)}}
Tabriz, Iran {{small|(1945–46)}}

}}

The Azerbaijan Democratic Party ({{langx|az|{{lang|fa|آذربایجان دموکرات فرقه‌سی}}|Azərbaycan Demokrat Firqəsi}}; {{langx|fa|فرقه دموکرات آذربایجان|Ferqa-ye demokrāt-e Āzarbāyjān}}) was a pro-Soviet, separatist, and pan-Turkist party founded by Jafar Pishevari in Tabriz, Iran, in September 1945.{{cite book |last1=Ahmadi |first1=Hamid |editor1-last=Kamrava |editor1-first=Mehran |title=The Great Game in West Asia: Iran, Turkey and the South Caucasus |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0190869663 |page=109, 121 |chapter=The Clash of Nationalisms: Iranian response to Baku's irredentism}} It depended on the Soviet Union and was supported by it. The ADP was founded as an opposition party against the Pahlavi dynasty. The Soviet-supported Tudeh Party dissolved its Azerbaijan chapter and ordered its members to join the ADP. The ADP ruled the Soviet-backed Azerbaijan People's Government from 1945 until 1946 with Pishevari as premier.