Abulfaz Elchibey
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Image:Elchibey.jpgAbulfaz Elchibey (Əbülfəz Elçibəy in Azerbaijani; b. June 24, 1938, Nakhichevan - d. August 22, 2000, Ankara) was an Azerbaijani political figure. His real name was Abulfaz Qadirqulu oglu Aliyev (Əbülfəz Qədirqulu oğlu Əliyev in Azerbaijani), but he changed his name when he started to agitate for politcal reform. He was the first non-communist President of Azerbaijan, serving from June 16, 1992 until he was overthrown on September 1, 1993.
Elections in June 1992 resulted in him becoming the country’s second president as a member of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party. His election came at a time when Azerbaijan was fighting a war with Armenians over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. The PFP-dominated government, however, proved incapable of either credibly prosecuting the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict or managing the economy, and many PFP officials came to be perceived as corrupt and incompetent.
Growing discontent culminated in June 1993 in an armed insurrection in Ganja, Azerbaijan’s second-largest city. As the rebels advanced virtually unopposed on the country's capital, Baku, President Elchibey fled to his native village of Keleki in Nakhichevan. The Military installed parliamentary speaker Heydar Aliyev (no relation) as the Chairman of the Supreme Council of Azerbaijan on June 15, 1993, and the National Assembly elected him as President nine days later. Aliyev declared a ceasefire in the war, and Elchibey was forced to leave politics, formally stepping down as president on September 1, 1993.
In 1997 he returned to Baku and spoke out against Aliyev. He was charged and went to trial in 1999 for accusing Aliyev of supporting the Kurdistan Workers Party but the charges were later dropped. Elchibey later went to Ankara, Turkey where he died.
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