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OL! Azerbaijan Youth Movement 
Abbreviation OL! Formation February 11, 2006 Type Youth group Location Baku, Azerbaijan Membership over 300 Website ol-az.org OL! Azerbaijan Youth Movement (Azerbaijani: OL! Azərbaycan Gənclər Hərəkatı) is a liberal Azeri youth movement based in Baku, Azerbaijan[1]. OL! is Azerbaijani for BE!
The leading principles of the movement are modernity, non-violence and tolerance.[2]
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Mission and activities
Mammed Amin Rasulzade was one of the founding leaders and speaker of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1918, widely regarded as the national leader of Azerbaijan.
The movement is particularly popular amongst Azerbaijani students from various universities. OL! accounted more than 300 members in 2008.[3]
Recently OL! has been implementing various flashmobs in order to commemorate the founder of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, Mammed Amin Rasulzade and his ideas.[4][5]
The movement is engaged in several social and political missions such as:[6]
- Establish independently thinking youth
- Encourage the active participation of youth in social processes and to increase their affect on social life
- Help youth to understand and protect their rights
- Develop a more independent and responsible youth
- Adapt youth to the modern standards of globalizing world
- Help youth in meeting their cultural, scientific and other non-material demands
The main social activities include:[7]
- Organization of debates on different topics
- Organization of sport contests
- Carrying out ecological events (cleaning the streets, preserving the nature)
- Conducting seminars, roundtable discussions and trainings
See also
- Adnan Hajizade
- Emin Milli
References
- ^ Intreview with Vugar Salamli in Echo newspaper
- ^ Article about OL! in Alma Newspaper
- ^ “OL!” AZƏRBAYCAN GƏNCLƏR HƏRƏKATININ MANİFESTİ
- ^ Global Voices post about OL!
- ^ AZERBAIJAN: YOUTH GROUPS LOOK TO PRE-SOVIET PAST TO BUILD DEMOCRATIC-SECULAR FUTURE
- ^ Azərbaycan Gənclər Hərəkatı
- ^ Events of OL! Movement
External links
Categories:- Organizations based in Azerbaijan
- Youth movements
- Azerbaijan stubs
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