Eleven families of former internally displaced persons have returned to their village in the Khojaly district.

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Thirty-six former internally displaced persons (IDPs) who fled the village of Seyidbeyli during the Karabakh conflict have returned. They have been given keys to their apartments.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on November 10, 2023, Azerbaijani authorities announced that they plan to resettle 140,000 people in Karabakh by 2026. On November 18, members of 37 families returned to the village of Khorovlu in the Jerbayil district.

On November 18, a group of former internally displaced persons returned to the village of Seyidbeyli in the Khojaly district, Oxu.az reports.

Eleven families, a total of 36 people, returned to the village. They had previously lived in other regions of Azerbaijan, primarily in dormitories, sanatoriums, and administrative buildings. They were given keys to their apartments.

Earlier, 27 families (91 people) returned to Seyidbeyli.

As a reminder, on September 19-20, 2023, Azerbaijan carried out large-scale military operations and took control of the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which began a mass exodus of the Armenian population. By October 7, 2023, 100,632 internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Nagorno-Karabakh had arrived in Armenia, and by September 2024, only 14 Armenians remained in the region. The "Caucasian Knot" has prepared a report "The Beginning and End of the Unrecognized Republic of Artsakh".

By August 2024, 2,036 families (7,901 people) of internally displaced persons (IDPs) had returned to the territories of Karabakh that had come under the control of Baku.

Azerbaijani IDPs complained about the difficulties of returning to Karabakh. In particular, they noted a shortage of jobs in Fizuli. People are seeking opportunities to return to their hometowns, but property issues in the territories under Azerbaijani control have not yet been resolved, IDPs noted.

Azerbaijani analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" indicated that simply providing housing to IDPs returning to their cities is not enough. Authorities must create jobs and build infrastructure, they emphasized.