Myktybek Yusupovich Abdyldayev (; born 17 August 1953) is a Kyrgyz politician, and current member of the

Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan The Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan, also known as the ''Jogorku Kenesh'' (, ), is the unicameral parliament of Kyrgyzstan. Before Kyrgyzstan's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, it was known as the Supreme Soviet of the Kirghiz Soviet Soc ...

as deputy for the Bir Bol party.

Early life and education

Abdyldayev was born on 17 August 1953 in the village of Kara-Jygach in Chuy Oblast in the

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, now

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. In 1976 he completed his degree in

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at the

Kyrgyz State National University The Kyrgyz National University, named after renowned Maturidi poet Jusup Balasagyn, is a national university in Kyrgyzstan. Kyrgyz National University is located in the capital city of Bishkek. It is the oldest and the largest Higher Education I ...

Career

Komsomol and civil service career, 1976 to 1990

Abdyldayev left his first job as a

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in a factory in Frunze in 1976, after five years of work and completion of studies to become secretary for the

Komsomol The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, usually known as Komsomol, was a political youth organization in the Soviet Union. It is sometimes described as the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), although it w ...

committee in Frunze's Technical College of Soviet Trade, and then became its secretary for its committee in the Issyk-Kul Oblast between 1982 and 1983. He rose up the ranks of the political bureaucracy, leaving his Komsomol role to become head of the political department of the Department of Internal Affairs of Issyk-Kul Oblast's executive committee between 1983 and 1986. After completing extra further education in management at the for three years, Abdyldayev was promoted to deputy of the internal affairs department in 1989. His final role in the Soviet Union was as a deputy in the

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, holding the position after being elected in the

1990 Kirghiz Supreme Soviet election Supreme Soviet elections were held in the Kirghiz SSR on 25 February 1990, with a second round on 7 April.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I'', p440 At the time, the Communist ...

. Although one source indicates that he did not hold this position for long, serving only until 1991 (when the Supreme Soviet became the Jogorku Kenesh), another source indicates that he was deputy until the 1995 parliamentary election.

Post-Soviet career, 1991 to present

Internal affairs roles, 1991 to 2001

Kyrgyzstan declared itself sovereign in December 1990, and independent in August 1991, with

Askar Akayev Askar Akayevich Akayev (, ; born 10 November 1944) is a Kyrgyz former politician who served as President of Kyrgyzstan from 1990 until being overthrown in the March 2005 Tulip Revolution. Education and early career Akayev was born in Kyzyl-B ...

as president. After independence, Abdyldayev spent the 1990s in roles in internal affairs departments – he returned to Issyk-Kul's internal affairs department as head between November 1991 to November 1994, before being recruited to serve as the Deputy Minister for the nationwide

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in the same month. He held the position for two and a half years before being promoted to First Deputy Minister in March 1997. He left in January 2001.

Akayev to Bakiyev, 2001 to 2010

After leaving the post of first deputy minister for internal affairs, Abdyldayev was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Kyrgyz Republic and also as Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, in February 2001. He then was made head of the Department for Defense and Security Affairs of the Presidential Administration of the Kyrgyz Republic in 2002 during

's presidency, and also gained the post of Prosecutor General in the same year. Akayev dismissed Abdyldayev in March 2005, for 'poor work' in dealing with the protests related to the

Tulip Revolution The Tulip Revolution, also known as the First Kyrgyz Revolution, led to Kyrgyzstan's then-President of Kyrgyzstan, President Askar Akayev's fall from power. The revolution began after Kyrgyz parliamentary elections, 2005, parliamentary elections ...

. After a long period of working at the regional and nationwide internal affairs departments, Abdyldayev returned once again to an internal affairs role as Acting Deputy Minister for Internal Affairs in March 2005, in the wake of the Tulip Revolution. Abdyldayev did not return to a government role for another year, until being appointed by Akayev's successor,

Kurmanbek Bakiyev Kurmanbek Sali uulu Bakiyev (born 1 August 1949) is a Kyrgyzstani politician who served as the second president of Kyrgyzstan from 2005 until his removal from office as a result of the Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010, forcing Bakiyev to flee the coun ...

, to the head of the Presidential Administration, serving for from May 2006 to April 2007, when he resigned in wake of protests calling for a fresh presidential election.

Jogorku Kenesh deputy, 2010 to present

After the wake of

2010 Kyrgyz revolution The 2010 Kyrgyz Revolution, also known as the Second Kyrgyz Revolution, the Melon Revolution, the April Events () or officially as the People's April Revolution, began in April 2010 with the ousting of Kyrgyz president Kurmanbek Bakiyev in the ...

, he was elected as deputy for the

Ata-Zhurt Ata-Zhurt or Ata-Jurt ( ; ) is a political party in Kyrgyzstan. Its political base is in the south of the country, but the party is headquartered in its capital Bishkek. In 2014, it merged with the Respublika party to create Respublika–Ata Z ...

party in the 2010 parliamentary elections, and was leader from November 2012 to April 2014. In 2015, he switched his affiliation to the Bir Bol party. In April 2011, Abdyldayev was part of a procession of deputies who sacrificed rams outside the Jogorku Kenesh building, just before the morning session of the day started. It was done to stop 'evil spirits' disrupting the work of the legislature. Abdyldayev is married with two children.

References

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