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'''İsgender Hamidov''' ({{lang-az|İsgəndər Məcid oğlu Həmidov}})<ref>{{az icon}} [http://www.mia.gov.az/miahistory_az.html Daxili İşlər Nazirliyi : DİN-in tarixi]</ref> (also transliterated as ''Iskender Majid oglu Hamidov''<ref>[http://www.mia.gov.az/miahistory_en.html Historic background of the MIA]</ref> or ''Iskander Medjid oglu Hamidov''<ref name="rights">{{cite news | title=The Case of Iskander Hamidov: A mirror of human rights violations in Azerbaijan | author=Eldar Zeynalov |publisher=Human Rights Center of Azerbaijan (HRCA) | url=http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/azerbaijan/links/hamidov.html | date=December 28, 1996 | accessdate= 2006-09-16 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20060902094459/http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/azerbaijan/links/hamidov.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2006-09-02}}</ref>) (born April 10, 1948 in Bagli Peya village, [[Kalbajar]] rayon<ref name="rights"/>) is a former [[Azerbaijan Ministry of Internal Affairs|Minister of Internal Affairs]] of [[Azerbaijan]] who served in the [[Azerbaijan Popular Front Party|Popular Front]] government of 1992-1993.<ref name="analyst">{{cite news | title=Iskandar Hamidov is free. What is next for him? | author=Fariz Ismailzade |publisher=Central Asia and Caucasus Analyst | url=http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=2019&SMSESSION=NO | date=January 14, 2004 | accessdate= 2006-09-16}}</ref>
 
As a chairman of [[Azerbaijan National Democrat Party]], informally known as the [[Grey Wolves (organization)|Grey Wolves]], Hamidov pleaded for the creation of a [[Pan-Turkism|Greater Turkey]]<ref name="monde">{{cite journal |author=Martin A. Lee |date=March 1997 |title=Les liaisons dangereuses de la police turque |journal=[[Le Monde diplomatique]] |pages=9 |url=http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/1997/03/LEE/8019.html |quote=Ce dernier choisit comme ministre de l’intérieur M. Iskender Gamidov, un extrémiste incontrôlable affichant son appartenance aux Loups gris et plaidant ouvertement pour la création d’une Grande Turquie qui comprendrait le nord de l’Iran et s’étendrait jusqu’à la Sibérie, l’Inde et la Chine. Il fut forcé de démissionner en avril 1993 après avoir menacé l’Arménie d’une attaque nucléaire.|language=fr}}</ref> which would include northern [[Iran]] and extend itself to [[Siberia]], [[India]] and [[China]]. He was known to have threatened [[Armenia]] with a [[nuclear warfare|nuclear strike]],<ref name="monde"/><ref>Dawisha, Karen and Bruce Parrott, ''Conflict, cleavage, and change in Central Asia and the Caucasus'', (Cambridge University Press, 1997), 136.</ref> 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 <ref name="analyst"/> but was essentially treated as a political prisoner by the Amnesty International<ref>[http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGEUR040012002?open&of=ENG-ARM Amnesty International. "Political prisoners in Azerbaijan and Armenia", 20 January 2002]</ref> and the Council of Europe.<ref>[http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGEUR040012004?open&of=ENG-2U4 Amnesty International. "Concerns in Europe and Central Asia", July–December 2003]</ref> He was pardoned by the decree of President [[Ilham Aliyev]] in 2004.
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