90 Azerbaijani families returned to Agdam

Ninety Azerbaijani families who fled the city during the Karabakh conflict have returned to the city of Aghdam. They were given keys to their apartments.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," members of 120 Azerbaijani families returned to Aghdam in mid-February. By December 24, 2025, 6,206 families (24,729 people) had returned to 31 settlements in the former Karabakh conflict zone.

On March 5, a group of internally displaced persons returned to the city of Aghdam, Azertag reports.

At this stage, 90 families (346 people) have returned to the city, all of whom have been provided with new apartments. These families had previously lived temporarily in various regions of the republic, primarily in dormitories, sanatoriums, and administrative buildings, Report reports.

Representatives of the Special Representative of the President of Azerbaijan in the Aghdam, Fuzuli, and Khojavend districts, as well as the State Committee for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, attended the ceremony.

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 "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 looking for 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" pointed out that simply providing housing to IDPs returning to their cities is not enough. The authorities must create jobs and build infrastructure, they emphasized.