Isgandar Hamidov

Isgandar Majid oglu Hamidov (also transliterated as Iskender Majid oglu Hamidov or Iskander Medjid oglu Hamidov; April 10, 1948 in Bağlıpəyə village, Kalbajar rayon He was a nationalist and anti-communist. He played a key role in preventing Ayaz Mutallibov's 1992 self-coup.

As Minister of Internal Affairs, Hamidov sought to clamp down on the black market in Azerbaijan. Isgandar Hamidov resigned in April 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.

Historian Audrey Altstadt writes of Hamidov's military tenure, and the Council of Europe, he was a political prisoner. He was pardoned by the decree of President Ilham Aliyev in 2004.

He died in April 10, 2020, he was 72.