Aliyarbek Abjaliyev

Aliyarbek Tokobekovich Abjaliyev (born 5 November 1967) is a Kyrgyz politician, and current member of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan.

Abjaliyev was born on 5 November 1967 in the city of Osh in Osh Oblast in the Kirgiz SSR, now Kyrgyzstan.

In 1991 he graduated from Kyrgyz State University with a degree in economics and planning of material–technical supply.

Abjaliyev started work in 1992 as an accountant on a farm in Osh Region, moving to the Archa Trading House in the same year to work as an economist.

He then worked between 1993 and 2000 at a customs checkpoint in the Osh area, as senior inspector, head inspector, deputy head of the whole checkpoint and then as head.

He then received a degree in jurisprudence at the same university in 1996.

He left to become a head of a checkpoint in Batken Region and worked there for four years; in 2004 he took a job at Manas Airport, Kyrgyzstan's main international airport as head of customs operations.

Abjaliyev was first elected as deputy for the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan in the 2005 Kyrgyz parliamentary election, under the rule of Askar Akayev.

The results of the election would later cause the Tulip Revolution.

During his term as deputy, he performed further study at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan and was a member on the budgetary and financial committee.

After leaving the Supreme Council in the 2007 Kyrgyz parliamentary election, Abjaliyev became state secretary for Kyrgyzstan's anti-monopoly watchdog.

Abjaliyev was elected as deputy for the Respublika–Ata Zhurt party in the 2015 parliamentary election.

Abjaliyev is married, and has 4 children.