Erkin Gadirli was born on 13 May 1972, in Baku, the capital of the Azerbaijani SSR, which was then part of the Soviet Union.

[4] Gadirli worked as a lecturer at the Faculty of Law and International Relations of Baku State University from 1994 to 2006.

In 1998, he was a member of the Azerbaijani delegation to the UN Diplomatic Conference on the Establishment of the International Criminal Court in Rome, Italy.

Gadirli's right to vote in the board and give interviews to the media about the party's activities was also restricted for three months.

[4] Despite this, he participated in the snap Azerbaijani parliamentary elections in 2020 as an independent candidate as the REAL Party was not registered with the Ministry of Justice.

Erkin Gadirli also spoke of the assassination of the Armenian political figures who committed the Khojaly massacre in 1992, where at least 200[15] and possibly as high as 613[16] ethnic Azerbaijani civilians were massacred by Armenian Armed Forces and the 366th CIS regiment,[17][18] as an act of revenge, for which he was verbally warned by the leadership of the REAL Party.

Erkin Gadirli opposes the Turkification of the historical states that existed on the territory of modern-day Azerbaijan.

Erkin Gadirli said that the Azerbaijanis were always Turks, but they had not always been here, and for him the Turkic migration to the region was not a problem at all, it had neither weaknesses, shortcomings or other unpleasant aspects.