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
Bağlıpəyə village,
Kalbajar rayon
– February 26, 2020 in
Baku) was an Azerbaijani politician,
Minister of Internal Affairs of
Azerbaijan
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who served in the
Popular Front
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More generally, it is "a coalition ...
government of 1992–1993.
As a chairman of
Azerbaijan National Democrat Party, informally known as the
Grey Wolves
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, Hamidov pleaded for the creation of a
unified Turkic country which would include northern
Iran
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and extend itself to
Siberia
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,
India
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and
China. He was known to have threatened
Armenia
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with a
nuclear strike
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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 in 2004.
References
1948 births
2020 deaths
Nagorno-Karabakh
Recipients of Azerbaijani presidential pardons
Azerbaijani Popular Front Party politicians
Government ministers of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani people of the Nagorno-Karabakh War
Pan-Turkists
Azerbaijani prisoners and detainees
Prisoners and detainees of Azerbaijan
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