Name Isgandar Hamidov | Role Polit. | |
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Similar People Surat Huseynov, Rahim Gaziyev, Vazgen Sargsyan, Monte Melkonian, Shamil Basayev | ||
İsgəndər Həmidovun 1993-cü ildə canlı yayıma gəlməsi.
İsgender Hamidov (Azerbaijani: İsgəndər Məcid oğlu Həmidov) (also transliterated as Iskender Majid oglu Hamidov or Iskander Medjid oglu Hamidov) (born April 10, 1948 in Bagli Peya village, Kalbajar rayon) is a former Minister of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan who served in the Popular Front government of 1992-1993.
As a chairman of Azerbaijan National Democrat Party, informally known as the Grey Wolves, Hamidov pleaded for the creation of a Greater Turkey which would include northern Iran and extend itself to Siberia, India and China. He was known to have threatened Armenia with a nuclear strike, although Azerbaijan was not in possession of any nuclear weapons.
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. He was pardoned by the decree of President Ilham Aliyev in 2004.