FRANCE/(01 of16)
Open Image ModalAzerbaijan\'s First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva attends the opening ceremony of the VII Terrorism Victims International Congress in Paris September 15, 2011. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS HEADSHOT) (credit:Charles Platiau / Reuters)
FRANCE/(02 of16)
Open Image ModalAzerbaijan\'s First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva attends the opening ceremony of the VII Terrorism Victims International Congress in Paris September 15, 2011. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS HEADSHOT) (credit:Charles Platiau / Reuters)
FRANCE/(03 of16)
Open Image ModalUNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and Azerbaijan\'s First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva attends the Goodwill Ambassadors annual meeting in Paris, September 12, 2011. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE - Tags: HEADSHOT POLITICS) (credit:Charles Platiau / Reuters)
Azerbaijani president appoints wife as vice president(04 of16)
Open Image ModalBAKU, AZERBAIJAN - FEBRUARY 21: Mehriban Aliyeva is seen as Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev announces his decision to appoint his wife as the countrys first vice president, during security council meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan on February 21, 2017. (Photo by Presidency of Azerbaijan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Azerbaijani president appoints wife as vice president(05 of16)
Open Image ModalBAKU, AZERBAIJAN - FEBRUARY 21: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (C) announces his decision to appoint his wife Mehriban Aliyeva (left 2) as the countrys first vice president, during security council meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan on February 21, 2017. (Photo by Presidency of Azerbaijan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Exhibition of Soviet Azerbaijani artists opens at Moscow's State Tretyakov Gallery(06 of16)
Open Image ModalMOSCOW, RUSSIA - NOVEMBER 14, 2016: Zelfira Tregulova (L front), Director General of Moscow\'s State Tretyakov Gallery, Mehriban Aliyeva, President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets, and Mehriban\'s daughter and deputy Leyla (L-R front) attend a ceremony to open an exhibition titled \'The Constellation of Apsheron. Azerbaijani Artists of the 1960s to 1980s\'. Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS (Photo by Vyacheslav Prokofyev\\TASS via Getty Images) (credit:Vyacheslav Prokofyev via Getty Images)
Exhibition of Soviet Azerbaijani artists opens at Moscow's State Tretyakov Gallery(07 of16)
Open Image ModalMOSCOW, RUSSIA - NOVEMBER 14, 2016: President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, Azerbaijan\'s first lady Mehriban Aliyeva and Zelfira Tregulova (L-R front), Director General of Moscow\'s State Tretyakov Gallery, attend a ceremony to open an exhibition titled \'The Constellation of Apsheron. Azerbaijani Artists of the 1960s to 1980s\'. Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS (Photo by Vyacheslav Prokofyev\\TASS via Getty Images) (credit:Vyacheslav Prokofyev via Getty Images)
Azerbaijan Formula One Grand Prix(08 of16)
Open Image ModalBAKU, AZERBAIJAN - JUNE 19: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (L) and his wife Mehriban Aliyeva (R) attend a ceremony after Nico Rosberg wins the 8th race of 2016 Formula One Grand Prix of Europe in Baku, Azerbaijan on June 19, 2016. (Photo by Resul Rehimov/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
B20 / W20 Summit in Antalya(09 of16)
Open Image ModalANTALYA, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 15 : President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev\'s wife Mehriban Aliyeva attends a panel on \'Refugee Women\' within B20 / W20 joint Summit held prior to the G20 Leaders\' Summit, in Antalya, Turkey on November 15, 2015. Antalya, top tourist attraction city in southern Turkey on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, host the G20 Turkey Leaders Summit between November 15 and 16. (Photo by Ozge Elif Kizil/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
TURKEY-AZERBAIJAN/(10 of16)
Open Image ModalMehriban Aliyeva (C), the wife of Azerbaijan\'s President Ilham Aliev, Turkey\'s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (L), his wife Emine Erdogan (R) and Hayrunnisa Gul (2nd L), wife of Turkey\'s President Abdullah Gul, arrive at a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Ankara November 12, 2013. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS) (credit:Umit Bektas / Reuters)
FRANCE/(11 of16)
Open Image ModalSaudi billionaire Prince Waleed bin Talal (C) and his wife Princess Amira al-Taweel (L), and Azerbaijan\'s first lady Mehriban Aliyeva visit the new Department of Islamic Arts galleries during its official opening ceremony at the Louvre museum in Paris September 18, 2012. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY ROYALS) (credit:Gonzalo Fuentes / Reuters)
FRANCE/(12 of16)
Open Image ModalAzerbaijan\'s first lady Mehriban Aliyeva (L) and Irina Bokova (C), Director-General of UNESCO, arrive at the Leaders\' Forum session during the 36th session of UNESCO?s General Conference in Paris October 26, 2011. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS) (credit:Benoit Tessier / Reuters)
AZERBAIJAN-FRANCE/(13 of16)
Open Image ModalAzerbaijan\'s President Ilham Aliev (R) and first lady Mehriban Aliyeva pose after she was awarded with the Legion d\'Honneur medal in Baku, October 7, 2011. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer (AZERBAIJAN - Tags: POLITICS) (credit:Philippe Wojazer / Reuters)
AZERBAIJAN-FRANCE/(14 of16)
Open Image ModalAzerbaijan\'s President Ilham Aliev (R) and first lady Mehriban Aliyeva attend a ceremony to place the first stone of the French school in Baku,October 7, 2011. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer (AZERBAIJAN - Tags: POLITICS) (credit:Philippe Wojazer / Reuters)
FRANCE-CAUCASUS/(15 of16)
Open Image ModalFrance\'s President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) and Azerbaijan\'s President Ilham Aliev speak near first lady Mehriban Aliyeva (R) on the balcony at the Palace in Baku October 7, 2011. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer (AZERBAIJAN - Tags: POLITICS) (credit:Philippe Wojazer / Reuters)
FRANCE-CAUCASUS/(16 of16)
Open Image ModalFrance\'s President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) and Azerbaijan\'s President Ilham Aliev speak near first lady Mehriban Aliyeva on the balcony at the Palace in Baku October 7, 2011. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer (AZERBAIJAN - Tags: POLITICS) (credit:Philippe Wojazer / Reuters)