Isgandar Majid oglu Hamidov ( az, İsgəndər Məcid oğlu Həmidov) (also transliterated as ''Iskender Majid oglu Hamidov'' or ''Iskander Medjid oglu Hamidov''; April 10, 1948 in

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village,

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rayon – February 26, 2020 in

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) was an Azerbaijani politician,

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who served in the

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government of 1992–1993. As a chairman of Azerbaijan National Democrat Party, informally known as the

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, Hamidov pleaded for the creation of a unified Turkic country which would include northern

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and extend itself to

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and

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. He was known to have threatened

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with a

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. Isgandar Hamidov resigned in April 1993. In 1995, he was arrested and sentenced to 14 years in prison for embezzlement of state funds but was essentially treated as a political prisoner by the Amnesty International and the Council of Europe.Amnesty International. "Concerns in Europe and Central Asia", July–December 2003
He was pardoned by the decree of President

Ilham Aliyev Ilham Heydar oghlu Aliyev ( az, İlham Heydər oğlu Əliyev, ; born 24 December 1961) is the fourth president of Azerbaijan, serving in the post since 31 October 2003. The son and second child of the former Azerbaijani leader Heydar Aliyev, ...

in 2004.

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