Today is the 17th anniversary of the death of the National Leader of the Azerbaijani people Heydar Aliyev.
According to the Eurasia Diary, the memory of the national leader is revered both in Azerbaijan and abroad.
Heydar Aliyev was born on 10 May 1923 in Nakhchivan. Heydar Aliyev, who has been working in the security system since 1944, has served as the Deputy Head of the State Security Committee within the Cabinet of Ministers of the Azerbaijan SSR since 1964, as the Chairman since 1967 and was promoted to the position of Major General. He received private higher education in Leningrad in those years and in 1957 he graduated from Azerbaijan State University, Department of History. At the July 1969 plenary session of the Central Committee of the Azerbaijan SSR Communist Party, Heydar Aliyev was elected First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Azerbaijan SSR Communist Party. In December 1982, Heydar Aliyev was elected as a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, and became one of the leaders of the USSR. Heydar Aliyev resigned in October 1987 to protest the policy pursued by the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.
The next day, Heydar Aliyev made a statement at the Azerbaijani representative office in Moscow about the bloody tragedy committed by the Soviet troops in Baku on January 20, 1990, demanding the punishment of the perpetrators and the perpetrators of the crimes committed against the Azerbaijani people. He left the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in July 1991 to protest the hypocritical policy of the USSR leadership regarding the violent conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. Heydar Aliyev returned to Azerbaijan in July 1990, first lived in Baku and then Nakhchivan and was elected to the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan the same year. In 1991-1993, he became the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic and the Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan Republic.
Heydar Aliyev was elected as the leader of the New Azerbaijan Party(YAP) at the founding congress of the party in Nakhchivan in 1992.
Heydar Aliyev, who was elected as the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan on June 15, 1993, started to use the powers of the President of the Azerbaijan Republic on June 24, with the decision of the National Assembly. Heydar Aliyev was elected the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan as a result of the nationwide voting on 3 October 1993. In the next presidential elections held on 11 October 1998, he was re-elected as the President of the Azerbaijan Republic. Heydar Aliyev, who accepted to be a candidate in the presidential elections of 15 October 2003, refused to be a candidate due to health problems.
Haydar Aliyev, who had been treated for a long time at Cleveland Clinic in the United States, died on December 12, 2003. He was buried in the Alley of Honors.
