Mehman Aliyev
Head of Turan analytical serviceDate of birth: 26 October 1957
Place of birth: Baku, Azerbaijan
Professional Interests
Transitional problems; Economic and political reform; religious freedoms; Democratic theory; freedom of the expression; Journalism; Diplomacy.
Education
1965-1975 High school №26, Baku
1982-1985 Azerbaijan State University, Faculty of Philology
1985-1988 Moscow State University, Faculty of Journalism
Professional Experience
1990 Turan Information Agency, Director
1993 Presidential Apparatus Office, Public Relations Manager
1990 – 1991 Executive secretary of the magazine "Khazar"
1989 – 1990 Azerinform State Information Agency, contributor
1988 – 1989 "Molodej Azerbaijana", newspaper contributor
Languages
Azeri (native), Russian (fluent)
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When Antonio Costa, the president of the European Council, arrived in Azerbaijan’s capital on March 11, his visit carried the symbolism of a partnership that has steadily grown more important to both...
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Wars often begin with maximalist slogans and end with far more prosaic calculations: whether the minimum set of objectives has been achieved, whether the costs remain acceptable, and whether the campa...
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The specter of state collapse in the Middle East often brings to mind a single image: the descent of Syria into civil war after 2011. Cities reduced to ruins, foreign powers fighting through their pro...
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The death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in American and Israeli strikes on Tehran has plunged the country into its deepest political crisis since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, se...
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When Azerbaijan’s Economic Council convened on February 27 under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Ali Asadov, the agenda went beyond a routine macroeconomic review. At the center of discussions was...
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Azerbaijan has formally introduced an annual review mechanism for the minimum wage after parliament approved amendments to the Labour Code and President Ilham Aliyev signed them into law, according to...
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree reorganizing key state institutions in the fields of media and foreign policy analysis, merging several public legal entities into larger bodies....
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When Ilham Aliyev stepped onto the tarmac in Belgrade in mid-February, greeted by Aleksandar Vučić with full military honours, the picture looked familiar. What mattered was not the ceremony but the s...
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The chandeliers of the Bayerischer Hof glowed against a February chill as more than 450 presidents, prime ministers, generals and executives gathered for three days that felt less like a conference th...
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A series of drone strikes on Russian oil pipeline infrastructure in the Black Sea have disrupted shipments of Kazakh crude via the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), exposing the vulnerability of one...
