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
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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The Bronze Age burial-mound field is officially protected by the state. On the ground, however, the ancient mounds are being damaged, encroached upon by construction and gradually erased from the land...
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Across the Caspian to a New Asia: How Azerbaijan Is Redrawing the Boundaries of Regional Cooperation An informal meeting of Central Asian leaders in Cholpon-Ata showed that a region long caught betwee...
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On the shore of Lake Issyk-Kul, where mountain ranges are reflected in the dark water, the presidents of Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan exchanged their countries’ highest honors, spoke of shared Turkic roo...
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Azerbaijan’s labour force exceeded 5.4 million people in the first half of 2026 and the official unemployment rate remained close to 5.2%, but falling births, the limited reach of salaried employment...
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Traffic in central Buzovna continues to be shaped by the consequences of an accident that has formally been resolved. The groundwater leak has been stopped, but the damaged road has not been restored....
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Behind the high stone wall of an ordinary private home in Buzovna stand several ancient gravestones. They are not part of a decorative garden, nor were they moved there by archaeologists. The house si...
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BAKU, July 23 — The first half of 2026 brought no dramatic changes to Azerbaijan’s labor market. Employment continued to expand gradually, the non-state sector strengthened its position as the country...
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The Azerbaijani national press is marking its 151st anniversary at a time when humanity is entering a new information age—the era of artificial intelligence. Technology is no longer merely acceleratin...
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has publicly confirmed for the first time that Baku is being used as a venue for closed Russian-German contacts whose participants are discussing possible ways to en...
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On the morning of July 13, twenty minutes ahead of the scheduled time, Ronald Pofalla, a former chief of staff to the German chancellor, and Matthias Platzeck, a former premier of the federal state of...
