Abulfaz Elchibey ( June 71938August 222000) was an Azerbaijanpolitical figure. His real name was Abulfez Qadurqulu oglu Aliyev, but he changed his name when he started anticommunist political activity. He was the first non-Communist President of Azerbaijan from 1992 until he was overthrown in 1993. His election came at a time when Azerbaijan was fighting a war with Armenian rebels in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. During his presidency, Azerbaijan suffered many losses in the war, losing all of Nagorno-Karabakh and much other territory. Military forces with the support of parliamentary speaker Heydar Aliyev (no relation) overthrew Elchibey. Aliyev declared a seacefire in the war, and Elchibey was forced to leave politics and return to his native village in the Nakhichevan region of the country. In 1997 he returned to the country's capital, Baku and started to speak out against Aliyev. He was charged and went to trial in 1999For the album by Prince, see 1999 (album 1999 is a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the UN. Events Kosovo War Former child star Gary Coleman files for bankruptcy Y2K prep for accusing Aliyev of supporting the Kurdistan Workers PartyThe Congress for Freedom and Democracy in Kurdistan (Kadek), formerly known as the Kurdistan Workers Party (Kurdish: Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan, PKK) was one of several groups fighting for the creation of an independent Kurdish state in southern Turkey an but charges were dropped. Elchibey later went to AnkaraAnkara (formerly known as Angora or Enguri , and in the classical period, Ancyra is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city (after Istanbul) and lies at an approximate altitude of 850 meters (about 2800 feet). It is also the capital ofTurkeyTurkey (officially the Republic of Turkey Turkish Turkiye is a country located in Southwest Asia with a small part in southeastern Europe. Until 1922 the country was the center of the Ottoman Empire. The Anatolian peninsula, between the Black Sea and the where he died.
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