Mamed Iskenderov

Mamed Iskenderov (17 December [O.S. 4 December] 1915 – 28 May 1985)[1] was the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic from 10 July 1959 to 29 December 1961. He was a member of the Communist Party.

An ethnic Kurd, he was one of the few representatives of the indigenous minorities of the Azerbaijan SSR appointed to important government posts because he was officially registered as “Azerbaijani” (since the leadership of the Azerbaijan SSR pursued a policy of forced assimilation of its indigenous peoples, including the Kurds, among other things registering members of these communities in documents as “Azerbaijanis”).[2][3][4]

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References
  1. https://rulers.org/indexi.html
  2. Wasserman, Aryeh (2023). "A Year of Rule by the Popular Front of Azerbaijan". In Ro'i, Yaacov (ed.). Muslim Eurasia: Conflicting Legacies. Taylor & Francis. pp. 2, 145–146. ISBN 9781000891454. Thus, for instance, Moscow encouraged the Uzbek leadership to register Uzbekistan's Tajik inhabitants as Uzbeks and the leaders of Azerbaijan to register indigenous Muslim minorities as Azerbaijanis.
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    Following the establishment of Soviet power in Azerbaijan, the local authorities conducted a policy of 'absorbing' some of the national minorities, beginning with such indigenous groups as the Talysh, Lezgins, Tats and Kurds; most were officially labelled Azerbaijanis.
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    Representatives of the indigenous minorities were not for the most part appointed to important governmental positions. But there were exceptions. For instance, in the 1960s, Mamed Iskenderov, a Kurd, officially registered as an Azerbaijani, occupied the post of chairman of the Presidium of the Azerbaijan Supreme Soviet.
  3. "Kurds". www.eki.ee. The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire. Kurdish identity is most endangered in Azerbaijan. In recent decades the Azerbaijani authorities have been attempting to assimilate all ethnic minorities. In the absence of religious differences they have succeeded. The Kurdish language is not officially used and during censuses the Kurds have been recorded as Azerbaijanis.
  4. Siegelbaum, Lewis H.; Moch, Leslie Page (2023). Making National Diasporas: Soviet-Era Migrations and Post-Soviet Consequences. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 1009371851. While the Tats, a Persian-speaking people, were subjected to forced assimilation into the Azerbaijani nationality, Kurds experienced both compulsory assimilation and, in 1937, deportation to Kazakhstan.
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