İsgender Hamidov (also transliterated as Iskender Majid oglu Hamidov or Iskander Medjid oglu Hamidov) (born April 10, 1948 in Bagli Peya village, Kalbajar

Kalbajar

]Kalbajar is a rayon of Azerbaijan. Kalbajar is a Kurdish name meaning Stone City. The entire region is now under the control of Armenian forces who call the western half Karvajar. The eastern half is part of Nagorno-Karabakh, making up part of the province of Martakert...

 rayon) is a former Minister of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

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 who served in the Popular Front

Azerbaijan Popular Front Party

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 government of 1992-1993.

As a chairman of Azerbaijan National Democrat Party

Azerbaijan National Democrat Party

The Azerbaijan National Democrat Party, formerly known as the Grey Wolves Party, is a political party in Azerbaijan. It is the branch of the Grey Wolves in Azerbaijan. Isgandar Hamidov, a party member, was the Minister of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party government...

, informally known as the Grey Wolves

Grey Wolves

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, Hamidov pled for the creation of a Greater Turkey

Pan-Turkism

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 which would include northern Iran

Iran

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 and extend itself to Siberia

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, India

India

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 and China

China

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. He was known to have threatened Armenia

Armenia

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 with a nuclear strike

Nuclear warfare

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, 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

Ilham Aliyev

Ilham Heydar oglu Aliyev is the President of Azerbaijan since 2003. He also functions as the Chairman of the New Azerbaijan Party and the head of the National Olympic Committee...

in 2004.