Aytən Inglab gizi Mustafayeva (born 23 May 1968) is an Azerbaijani

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who was a member of the

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. She was elected at the 2015 Azerbaijani parliamentary election.

Early life

Mustafayeva graduated in 1990 with honours from the Faculty of Oriental Studies at

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Political career

Mustafayeva was elected to the

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in 2015.

Personal life

She was married to political scientist

Roshen Mustafayev Rovshan Mustafayev (born 5 October 1960, Baku – died 20 February 2009, Istanbul) was an Azerbaijani political scientist. Mustafayev established the first independent center for analytics in Azerbaijan in 1993. He published the scientific and p ...

until his death in 2009. She remarried in 2016. She is fluent in

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, Turkish,

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and

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References

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