State Flag Day (Azerbaijan)

• In 2010, a ceremony was held on National Flag Square in Baku for the holiday.[3][4]
• 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the Azeri flag. In Binəqədi raion, the Youth and Sports Department jointly organized an event entitled "The Eternal Pin of Independence". The Youth Union of the Ganja City Branch of the New Azerbaijan Party organized a march "One flag for everyone" on the occasion.[5]
• In 2019, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu commemorated the day with a joint video with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov in which he said that "The freedom, future and prosperity [of Turkey and Azerbaijan] are connected to one another".[6] At the same time, 9 November was declared to be Azerbaijani State Flag Day in the US state of Oklahoma.[7]
• On the holiday in 2020, the Ukrainian Honorary Consulate was opened in the city of Shamakhi and was also illuminated the colors of the Azerbaijani flag.[8]

The 2020 celebrations of the holiday were held in connection with the Azerbaijani victory in the Second Battle of Shusha, in which the Azerbaijani Army took control of the city of Shusha from the forces of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.[9][10] Azerbaijani ambassador to Pakistan Ali Alizadaon tweeted a picture of the flags of Azerbaijan, Turkey and Pakistan, saying that National Flag Day was "incomplete" without the flags of those two countries, as a sign of respect for the involvement of those two countries in the war.[11] Since 2020, the day before State Flag Day has been commemorated as Victory Day.