Fazil Mustafa

Fazil Mustafa, formerly known as Fazil Gazanfaroglu, (, born 19 October 1965) is a deputy of the III, IV, V, and VI convocations of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan.

History Fazil Mustafa was born on 19 October 1965, in the city of Nakhchivan. He graduated from Nakhchivan City Secondary School No. 10 in 1982 and worked as a laborer at Nakhchivan Construction Trust No. 5 from 1982 to 1984. He then served in the former Soviet Armed Forces in Ukraine as a regular soldier from 1984 to 1986. In 1986, he enrolled in the Faculty of Law at Baku State University and graduated with a degree in law in 1991.

He served as an adviser to the President of the Azerbaijan Popular Front from 1991 to 1992 and as the head of the APC Analytical Center in 1992.

He was chosen in the fourth, fifth, and sixth convocations of the Azerbaijani National Assembly in 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020 to serve as a deputy. He finished third with 89,985 votes and 2.43% of the vote in the 2008 presidential election. He has authored 19 books and hundreds of scientific and journalistic articles published in Turkey and Azerbaijan. He is married and has two children.

2023 assassination attempt On 28 March 2023, Azerbaijani MP Fazil Mustafa was the target of a "terrorist attack" at his residence in Baku.

On 3 April 2023, a spokesman for Azerbaijan's interior ministry announced 4 people had been arrested in connection to the attack.