Chingiz Mustafayev (journalist)

Chingiz Mustafayev
Çingiz Mustafayev
BornÇingiz Fuad oğlu Mustafayev
(1960-08-29)29 August 1960
Baku, Azerbaijani SSR
Died15 June 1992(1992-06-15) (aged 31)
Nakhichevanik, Azerbaijan
Resting placeMartyrs' Lane
OccupationJournalist, author
NationalityAzerbaijani
Period1991–1992
SubjectPolitics, freedom of press, human rights
Notable awardsNational Hero of Azerbaijan
1992
Spouse
Rafiga Mustafayeva
(m. 1990)
ChildrenFuad Mustafayev
Relatives

Chingiz Fuad oghlu Mustafayev (Azerbaijani: Çingiz Fuad oğlu Mustafayev, Чинҝиз Фуад оғлу Мустафајев, [t͡ʃiŋˈɟis fuˈɑt ɔˈɣlu mustɑˈfɑjɪf]; August 29, 1960 – June 15, 1992) was an independent Azerbaijani journalist, posthumously bestowed the title of National Hero of Azerbaijan.[1] Mustafayev, with the medical degree and no formal background in journalism save for a year of on the job training, created a video record of the early stages of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, most of the documentary had to be shot from the frontline which ultimately was the cause of his abrupt death due to mortar wounds.[2]