Gular Ahmadova
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| Member of the Azerbaijan Parliament for Khatai II |
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In office 5 November 2000 – 4 October 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Igbal Aghazadeh |
| Succeeded by | TBA |
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Gular Mikayil qizi Aliyeva 20 August 1965 Baku, Azerbaijan |
| Nationality | Azerbaijani |
| Political party | New Azerbaijan Party (until 2013) |
| Spouse(s) | Fikrat Ahmadov |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University |
| Profession | mathematician, psychologist |
| Committees | International and Interparliamentary Relations Committee, EU—Azerbaijan Parliament Cooperation Committee |
| Website | www.gularahmadova.com (now defunct) |
Gular Mikayil qizi Ahmadova (Azerbaijani: Gülər Əhmədova), née Aliyeva (born 20 August 1965, Baku), is a retired Azerbaijani politician, former member of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan and former member of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party. She gained notoriety in 2012 after a video shot on a hidden camera was released, featuring Ahmadova negotiating a bribe sum with lawyer and fellow party member Elshad Abdullayev to help arrange, among other things, his election to the Azerbaijani parliament. The corruption scandal which ensued became known as Gulargate (by analogy with the Watergate scandal) and led to Ahmadova's stepping down as an MP and later arrest and expulsion from the party. She was sentenced to three years in prison for embezzlement and failure to report a grave offence, but her prison term was suspended 14 months into the sentence.
Gular Ahmadova was born in Baku, the oldest of the family's four children, but raised chiefly by her grandmother. Ahmadova's father was originally from the village of Nardaran near Baku, while her mother a native of Shamakhy. In 1986, she graduated with honors from the Azerbaijan State Pedagogical Institute with a degree in mathematics. For the next eight years, she worked as a teacher and vice-principal at various educational institutions. Ahmadova holds a master's degree in psychology. She taught at the Baku State University until her arrest. 1994 marked the beginning of her career as a civil servant when she was employed by the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Azerbaijan first as a chief training manager, then head of a department and finally head of the administration. In 1996, she became chair of the Children's Organization of Azerbaijan.
Ahmadova met her future husband Fikrat Ahmadov in university and the two got married in 1985. They have three children. Fikrat Ahmadov worked as head of the advertisement department for the national broadcaster AzTV from 1995 to 2012. He reportedly "resigned of his own free will" following the corruption scandal involving his wife.
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