Ten Azerbaijani families returned to the village of Hasanriz.

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Fifty-two internally displaced persons have returned to the village of Hasanriz in the Aghdere district of Azerbaijan and have been given keys to their new homes.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on January 29, members of 26 Azerbaijani families who fled the village during the Karabakh conflict returned to the village of Mammadbeyli in the Zangilan district. They were given keys to their new homes.

Another group of displaced persons has returned to the village of Hasanriz in the Aghdere district. As part of this phase, 52 people—members of 10 families—returned to the village, Oxu.az reported on January 30.

The families, who had been temporarily housed in various regions of Azerbaijan and lived in dormitories, sanatoriums, and administrative buildings, resettled in the village. Upon arrival, they were given keys to their own homes.

Azerbaijanis from Karabakh settlements were forced to flee their homes after the start of the First Karabakh War. Their return began after Azerbaijan took control of part of Karabakh. On November 10, 2023, Azerbaijani authorities announced that they planned to resettle 140,000 people to the territories of Karabakh that had come under Baku's control by 2026.

As a reminder, on September 19-20, 2023, Azerbaijan conducted 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 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 entitled "The Beginning and End of the Unrecognized Republic of Artsakh".

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 homelands, but property issues in the territories under Azerbaijani control have not yet been resolved, the 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.