Aliyev family
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Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
The Aliyev family (Azerbaijani: Əliyevlər) is an Azerbaijani political family whose members have held the highest offices in Azerbaijan since the 20th century. The family rose to prominence under Heydar Aliyev, who served as First Secretary of Soviet Azerbaijan and later as President of Azerbaijan from 1993 to 2003. He was succeeded by his son, Ilham Aliyev, who has remained in power since 2003. Other members of the family, including Mehriban Aliyeva, have also occupied senior political positions.
The Aliyev family has played a dominant role in the political life of Azerbaijan in the post-Soviet period, with power effectively concentrated within the family and its close associates. The continuity of leadership between Heydar Aliyev and his son has led some observers to describe the system as dynastic or hereditary, drawing comparisons with other modern political families that have exercised long-term control over state institutions.
The Aliyev family comes from the village of Comardlı (modern-day Tanahat in the Syunik Province of Armenia), located only a few miles from Nakhchivan.[4] The mother of Alirza Kerbalai Jafar oglu Aliyev was from Vorotnavan (also in modern-day Syunik Province of Armenia).[4][5]
In 1967, Heydar Aliyev was appointed chairman of the KGB under the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, and in the same year he was awarded the rank of Major General. At the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan held on July 14, 1969, Heydar Aliyev was elected First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Azerbaijan Communist Party and held this position until December 3, 1982. After the declaration of independence of Azerbaijan in 1991, Aliyev became Chairman of the Supreme Assembly of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, the highest official of the exclave, determining all its foreign and domestic policies. Heydar Aliyev managed to become the head of the already independent Azerbaijan again on October 10, 1993, when he was elected the third president of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and was re-elected in 1998, and held this position until October 31, 2003.
After Heydar Aliyev, his son, Prime Minister Ilham Aliyev, won the presidential election in 2003, and then in subsequent elections in 2008, 2013, 2018 and 2024, and became the fourth president of Azerbaijan. On February 21, 2017, Ilham Aliyev appointed his wife, Mehriban Aliyeva, as the first Vice President of Azerbaijan.
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