Isgandar Majid oglu Hamidov () (also transliterated as Iskender Majid oglu Hamidov or Iskander Medjid oglu Hamidov; April 10, 1948 in Bağlıpəyə village, Kalbajar rayon – February 26, 2020 in Baku) was an Azerbaijani politician, 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 unified Turkic country which would include northern Iran and extend itself to Siberia, India and China. He was known to have threatened Armenia with a nuclear strike. He had also supported Chechnya in the First Chechen war as part of the Grey Wolves and played a major role in the First Nagorno-Karabakh war.

Isgandar Hamidov

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.

Isgandar Hamidov

He died in April 10, 2020. He was 72

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1948 births

2020 deaths

Nagorno-Karabakh

Recipients of Azerbaijani presidential pardons

Azerbaijani Popular Front Party politicians

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Azerbaijani prisoners and detainees

Prisoners and detainees of Azerbaijan

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