| Aziz Seyidov | |
| Office: | Justice of the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan |
| Term Start: | 25 April 2017 |
| Office2: | Chief State Prosecutor of Baku |
| Term Start2: | 2007 |
| Term End2: | 2017 |
| Birth Date: | 1956 10, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Ganja, Azerbaijan |
| Alma Mater: | Baku State University Law School |
Aziz Jafar oglu Seyidov (Azerbaijani: Əziz Cəfər oğlu Seyidov) (born 6 October 1956) is the Justice of the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan.[1] He took office on 25 April 2017.[2]
He previously served as a Chief State Prosecutor of Baku from 2007 until 2017.[3] [4]
Aziz Seyidov was born in Ganja, Azerbaijan on 6 October 1956. He finished school in his hometown. After serving in the army, he enrolled and successfully graduated from Baku State University Law School in 1983 and began work at Nizami raion of Baku city's Prosecutor's Office where he served as an Investigator, Chief Investigator and then as a Chief Investigator of the special cases division of the Prosecutor's Office.
After working in Nizami Prosecutor's Office and then in the special cases division of the Azerbaijan's Prosecutor General's office, Aziz Seyidov transferred to a Military Prosecution Service and between 1993 and 2001 served in various departments of the service as a Military Prosecutor.[5] In 2001, he returned to the State Prosecution Service as a Head of the Department for Supervision over the Execution of Laws of Azerbaijan's Prosecutor General's office. Aziz Seyidov has been the chief prosecutor of Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan since 2007. He was reappointed to another five-year term in this position in 2012.[6]
On 25 April 2017, Aziz Seyidov was elected as a Justice of Supreme Court of Azerbaijan at a plenary session of National Assembly (Azerbaijan) (Azerbaijani: Milli Məclis).[7]
He is married. Has four children.