Haidar Abashidze (Georgian: ჰაიდარ აბაშიძე; 15 August 1893 – 3 January 1966) was a Georgian politician, journalist, and educator from the Muslim community of Adjara. Born in Batum, then part of the Russian Empire, of a Muslim Georgian noble family of the beys of Adjara, Abashidze studied at a local Georgian school and then at a college in Ottoman Turkey. In 1913 he began teaching at schools in Adjara and published in the local press, championing the pro-Georgian orientation among the Muslim Adjarains. He further sympathized with the social-democratic revolutionaries and was persecuted by the Russian government. Between 1918 and 1920, together with Mehmed Abashidze, he was a driving force behind the Liberation Committee of Muslim Georgia, an organization that was active during the Turkish a