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Tale Heydarov
Personal details
Nationality	Azerbaijani
Children	3
Parent	Kamaladdin Heydarov
Alma mater	Collingham College; London School of Economics and Political Science; Birkbeck, University of London
Occupation	Founder of science and education organisations
Website	https://taleheydarov.com

Tale Heydarov (Template:Lang-az) is an Azerbaijani businessman and investor.

Founder and chairman of the European Azerbaijan Society (2008-2018), former president of the "Gabala" sports club, European Azerbaijan School, "LIBRAFF" bookstore chain. He is the founder of several institutions, compiler, editor and author of books and collections on the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Early life and education

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Heydarov attended Collingham College, London, from 2001–2003, and read for a BSc International Relations and History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) from 2003–2006.

He received a Master’s degree in International Security and Global Governance from Birkbeck, University of London, in 2008.

Career

Tale Heydarov is Chairman of the Board of Gilan Holdings, a conglomerate business in Azerbaijan. Heyadrov took over the company from his father who founded the company in the 1980s. The company has invested in the Azeri football clubs Gabala FC football club and Gabala Sports Club. Tale was president of Gabala FC from 2005 to 2019, and Gabala Sports Club, which included the football team Gabala FK, since 2013.

Heydarov is Founder and Chairman of the European Azerbaijan School (EAS), a private co-educational day-school applying the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme, Cambridge International Examinations and the IB Diploma Programme. He is also the Founder and Director of the Azerbaijani Teacher’s Development Centre (ATDC).

Heydarov is the founder of several companies in the publishing sector, including Teas Press Publishing House and the Libraff chain of bookstores, which sells publications in Azerbaijani, English, Russian and Turkish. From 2006–2019, he was Chief Editor of Visions of Azerbaijan magazine, which began in 2006 but also launched as a digital TV channel in 2016.

While a student in London, Heydarov founded the London Azerbaijani Society which later developed into the European Azerbaijani Society (TEAS). It is a lobbying group which was known for sponsoring luxurious trips for European politicians to travel to Azerbaijan and promoting the authoritarian regime in Azerbaijan. The group was involved in the Azerbaijani laundromat scandal.

Films

He was executive producer of the movies:

• "Gənc səslər, qədim nəğmələr"
• "Azərbaycan xaricilərin gözü ilə"
• "İvonna Botto-Şirməmmədovanın həyat hekayəsi".

Publications (Publisher/Editor)

English

• International Visions: The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Karabakh – From History to Future Peace Prospects. Baku, 2007
• Azerbaijan: 100 Questions Answered. Baku, 2008
• Ordubadi M.S. Years of Blood – A History of the Armenian–Muslim Clashes in the Caucausus, 1905–06. London, 2010
• The Armenian Question in the Caucasus – Russian Archive Documents and Publications. Vols. 1–3. London, 2012
• Khojaly: Witness of a War Crime – Armenia in the Dock. London, 2014

References

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3. "Tale Heydərov: "Artıq mənim üçün bu vəzifədən getməyin vaxtı çatıb"". Report İnformasiya Agentliyi (in Azerbaijani). Retrieved 2022-10-14.
4. European Azerbaijan School (EAS)
5. "Azerbaijan Teacher Development Centre accredited as Cambridge Professional Development Centre". Azertac. 12 June 2018.
6. "˝LIBRAFF˝ kitab mağazasının ˝Sumqayıt˝ filialı açılıb - FOTO". Apa.az (in Azerbaijani). Retrieved 2022-10-14.
7. ""Teas Press" "Ən yaxşı nəşriyyat" seçilib". Apa.az (in Azerbaijani). Retrieved 2022-10-14.
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11. ""Gənc Səslər, Qədim Nəğmə" adlı sənədli filmin nümayişi keçirildi - FOTOLAR". Teleqraf.com (in Azerbaijani). 2016-10-22. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
12. International Visions: The Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict over Karabakh. From History to Future Peace Prospects. Visions of Azerbaijan. 1 January 2007. ISBN 978-9952809244.
13. Azerbaijan - 100 Questions Answered: 100 Questions Answered: 3rd Edition. 1 November 2008. ASIN 9952806809.
14. "Years of Blood". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2022-10-14.
15. Heydarov, Tale (1 July 2011). The Armenian Question in the Caucasus: Russian Archive Documents and Publications, 1724-1914 (Three Volume Set). Ithaca Press. ISBN 978-0863724091.
16. "Book "Khojaly Witness of a war crime – Armenia in the Dock" launches in London". Azertac. 2 July 2015.
17. Heydarov, Tale; Peart, Ian; Machlachlan, Fiona (30 March 2015). Khojaly Witness of a War Crime: Armenia in the Dock. Ithaca Press. ISBN 978-0863725401.

• 1985 births
• Living people
• Azerbaijani businesspeople
• Alumni of the London School of Economics
• Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London