28 August 2000 BAKU-Azerbaijan’s former President Abulfaz Elchibey died of cancer on 22 August in the Gulhaneh military hospital in Ankara, Turkey. He was 62. Following the Ganja mutiny in 1993-which threatened to plunge the country into civil war-Elchibey voluntarily left Baku and returned to his home town where he spent the next four years. […]

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