Sevil Aliyeva (born 12 October 1955) is an Azerbaijani composer and the founder of Space TV. She is the daughter to the former

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Heydar Aliyev Heydar Alirza oghlu Aliyev (10 May 1923 – 12 December 2003) was an Azerbaijani politician who was a Soviet party boss in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic from 1969 to 1982, and the third president of Azerbaijan from October 1993 to ...

, and the elder sister to the incumbent president

Ilham Aliyev Ilham Heydar Oghlu Aliyev (born 24 December 1961) is an Azerbaijani politician who has been the fourth president of Azerbaijan since 2003. He is also the leader of the New Azerbaijan Party since 2005. The son and second child of former Aze ...

Early life

Born in

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in 1955 to

and Zarifa Aliyeva, Sevil started to learn music when she was 6 years old. In 1974, when Heydar was appointed

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, the whole family, including Sevil and her younger brother,

, who was then studying at

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(MGIMO), moved to

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. She married Makhmud Mamed-Guliev, who has been serving as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs since 1993. They have a daughter, who frequently made phone calls to

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, where Heydar was working. One day, she was invited to Kremlin to have tea with Heydar, and she went with Sevil. Despite this, Sevil later revealed that her daughter could go there without her.

Post-Soviet life

Following the 1993 coup, Heydar came to power and became the new

. Sevil, who advocated for freedom of people, was not in favour of her father's ruling style. In 1998, Sevil left Azerbaijan and moved to

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. Since then, she rarely visits Azerbaijan; one of her visits was in 2003, when Heydar passed away. Following the death of Heydar, his son and Sevil's younger brother, Ilham, succeeded his presidency, although Sevil was not in favour of her brother. In 2009, several newspapers reported that Sevil was trying to join politics, in opposition to her brother. She, however, denied the rumour.

References

External links

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