Following the Defense Minister, replaced in Azerbaijan was also the commander of the Air Force. Appointed to this position was Major-General Ramiz Tahirov, who also received the post of Deputy Minister of Defense.
Prior to this appointment Tahirov served as Deputy Assistant to the President on military matters, and before that he served in the Army Air Defence. As commander of the Air Force, he changed Altai Mehdtiyev.
From his post was also dismissed the Chief of Inspection of the Defense Ministry, Major General Mahammad Beydullaev. In his place was appointed a national hero, Colonel Fahraddin Jabrailov.
According to the Doctrine Center for Military Journalism Studies Doctrine, in the near future Deputy Defense Ministers, chiefs of a number of departments and the commanders of several major units will be replaced. -06D -
Politics
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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The U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has expressed condolences to the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, following the tragic incident in the city of Magdeburg. "We are deeply shocked by the news of the deaths and injuries resulting from the tragic incident that took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg," the message reads.
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