Aygöl Zamambekuz

Aygöl Zamambekuz (born 24 Dein 1526, Sfiracheny) is a Kyrzbekistani politician and President of the Democratic Republic of Kyrzbekistan since 1571. She is also the leader of the Socialist People's Party of Kyrzbekistan.

A former lawyer, Zamambekuz entered politics shortly before the civil war, working as lawyer for several working unions and left-wing political parties. She reportedly joined the far-left Workers People's Party in 1561. When the Kyrzbek Revolutionary Army (KRG) took the town of Magan in 1564, she served as Commissar for Social Welfare of the local revolutionary government. A year later, she was appointed to the Revolutionary Assembly of the Workers People's Party, the second largest organ of the party. In Septem 1567, she became Deputy Chairman of the revolutionary council of Qenderë, and she was elected to the Constituent Assembly in early 1569.

She was appointed Speaker of the Revolutionary Coalition (an electoral coalition gathering several Kyrzbek and Arberian left-wing political parties) and became the first General Secretary of the Socialist People's Party, a position she has kept since then. In 1570, she was elected Governor of the state of Uzekyak.

After the death of Amazat Aydur, the first president of the Democratic Republic of Kyrzbekistan, in early 1571, she became the second President of the Democratic Republic of Kyrzbekistan, being the first female Kyrzbek head of state in modern history.

Early life

Zamambekuz was born in 1526, Sfiracheny, a town in central Kyrzbekistan, then belonging to Northern Autonomous Region of the Qenderi Commonwealth. She is an ethnic Kyrzbek, the daughter of Zamambek Amerhankur (1501-1560), a teacher, and Tansilu Yasherkuz (1514-1568). Although Zamambekuz's uncle was Kuzhe in Sfiracheny, she had a relatively secular education.

Her paternal grandfather Amerhan Lenarur was a teacher of Kyrzbek language, who was killed during the Second Kyrzbek Revolt. He married Zamambekuz's grandmother Alsu, who died in 1578 at the age of 89. Zamambekuz's maternal granparents were Yasher Zagipur, a butcher from Agacheny, and Vereka Nomakh, the only daughter of a policeman in Sfiracheny. Both her parents and her four grandparents were non-denominational Akhadic believers.

At school, she learned to speak Arberësh language fluently, and was awarded prizes for her proficiency in Geography and Natural Sciences. She moved to Qenderi in 1544, where she studied Law from 1544 to 1550. She lived in Qenderë northwestern district, in an apparment owned by an older cousing. While a student, she participated in a student club which discussed Kyrzbek literature. She published a few Kyrzbek language poems in the literary magazine "Chychy", which editor was Kyrzbek novelist Timer Ilsatur. From 1553 to 1555, she worked briefly for a law firm in Frashëri.

In 1556, she was involved in the growing Kyrzbek nationalist movement, and worked as lawyer defending unionists, arrested Kyrzbek students, and members of left-wing organizations in courts. At the beginning of the Kyrzbek-Arberian Civil War, however, she moved back to Sfiracheny, where she married with Lenar Narimanur, a physicist from Bakyt. Between 1558 and 1559, they were reportedly living in Faharan, A'Sir, but Zamambekuz moved back to her country in late 1559.

Activities during the war

Zamambekuz joined the Workers People's Party, a far-left Kyrzbek socialist party, in 1561. The Workers People's Party had its own armed-wing, the Kyrzek Revolutionary Army (KRG), which waged a guerrilla war against the Arberian monarchy, mostly in nothern provinces. In early 1564, the KRG took the town of Magan, killing 317 Arberian soldiers. The Workers People's Party created their own revolutionary government in the town, in which Zamambekuz served as Commissar for Social Welfare.

After the KRG launched an offensive and took control of the city of Qenderë, the second largest city of the country back then, on Septem 1567, Zarobsyan Irekur became Chairman of the revolutionary council in the city, and Zamambekuz was appointed Deputy Chairman. The revolutionary council became the most important political authority in the province, and it was in charge of day-to-day governance.

Zamambekuz was appointed to the Central Committee of the Workers People's Party shortly afterwards, and once the Arberian monarchy collapsed, she was sent to negotiate with other left-wing Arberian organizations, such as the Socialist Party and the Arberian Social Democratic Party. On late Dein, the Second Congress of Free and Revolutionary Councils passed a resolution calling for a "All-Socialist government", and Zarobsyan Irekur became Chairman of the People's Council. On early 1569, Zamambekuz was elected to the Constituent Assembly, as a candidate of the Revolutionary Coalition, which gathered the Workers People's Party, the Arberian Social Democratic Party, the Arberian Socialist Party, the Kyrzbek Democratic Party, and other minor left-wing organizations.

Early political career in the Democratic Republic of Kyrzbekistan

Zamambekuz became party leader in the city of Qenderë, and run for the 1570 state elections, being elected as Governor of Uzekyak, the largest and central state of the Democratic Republic of Kyrzbekistan.

Before that, she played an important role in the negotiations for the creation of the Revolutionary Coalition, an electoral coalition of several Kyrzbek and Arberian left-wing political parties, and the formation of a coalition government afterwards. She also played an important role in the creation of the Socialist People's Party, formed in 1569 as a merger of the Workers People's Party, the Arberian Socialist Party, and the Kyrzbek Democratic Party, being appointed as General Secretary of the Socialist People's Party only a few months afterwards.

After the 1570 state elections, she led the negotiations with the Arberian Social Democratic Party which agreed to support her election as Governor of Uzekyak, in exchange that the Socialist People's Party supported the Social Democratic Party candidate in the state of Kombash.

Presidency

After the death of President Amazat Aydur, Aygöl Zamambekuz was elected president of the Democratic Republic of Kyrzbekistan by the Federal Chamber of Revolutionary Councils by a clear majority.

She continued much of President Amazut Aydur policies, aimed to the reconstruction of the economy after a long devastating civil war, along with radical economic, social, and political reforms. Under her leadership, the ruling Socialist People's Party consolidated its power -at least at the federal level- proving to be the only nationwide competitive political party, and being the most voted political party nationwide in every election from 1570 to the date, and the largest political party in both houses of the parliament since then.