World leaders congratulated President Recep Tayyip Erdogan following the Yes victory in Sunday’s historic referendum, reports the Anadolu news agency. As of 11.30 p.m. local time (2030GMT), unofficial results showed the Yes camp on 51.41 percent while the No had 48.59 percent. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev was the first leader to congratulate Erdogan in a…
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EU-Azerbaijan: Mehman Huseynov sentence questioned
The two-year sentence handed down on 3 March by a court in Baku to Azerbaijani blogger Mehman Huseynov on a charge of slander, after he reported that he was tortured during a brief incarceration in January, raises serious questions both as regards respect for freedom of expression and due process of law, says the statement…
Aliyeva from First Lady to First vice-president of Azerbaijan
This week Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev appointed his wife Mehriban as the first vice president of the country — the person next in line in the nation’s power hierarchy. Ilham Aliyev, 55 named his wife Mehriban, 52, to the position created after a constitutional referendum in September. Mehriban, who married her husband when she was…
US-Russia military chiefs to meet in Baku
Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford and Chief of Russia’s General Staff Valery Gerasimov will hold a meeting on Thursday, 16 February 2017, in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, the Pentagon’s press office reported on Wednesday. According to the press office, Gerasimov and Dunford “will discuss a variety of issues including the current…
Aliyev cancelled visit to Europarliament
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev has canceled a meeting with the European Parliament president in Brussels, where he held talks with EU officials on issues including a new partnership agreement between Baku and the European Union. My remarks to the press after meeting President Aliyev of Azerbaijan in Brussels today: https://t.co/0ABjP87AFU pic.twitter.com/CG3IGc25Ez — Charles Michel…
EU-Azerbaijan meeting overshadowed by Human Rights issues
Europen Union officials should press President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan to free unjustly imprisoned political activists, journalists, and other government critics, Human Rights Watch said today. EU officials should also urge Aliyev to end the crackdown on independent groups and allow them to operate without undue government interference. President Aliyev will be in Brussels on…
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