TURKEY`S RULING MAKES STATEMENT ON KHOJALY GENOCIDE

Ankara, February 25 (AzerTAc). Turkey`s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)
has released a statement on the 17th anniversary of the Khojaly genocide.
In the light of Armenians` intensified propaganda of the so-called “genocide”,
international community is not interested in the Khojaly massacre given
eye-witnesses and photographs exist.
AKP`s statement says: “Khojaly massacre is the grave tragedy for Azerbaijan and the
whole Turkic world. Hundreds of civilians including women and children were brutally
killed 17 years ago in the town of Khojaly in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Official
sources, testimonial evidence and documents prove that after occupation of Khojaly
people seized by Armenia armed forces were brutally tortured. International human
rights organizations described Khojaly developments as the biggest massacre during
the occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh. The main aim of the Turkey`s foreign policy is
to achieve peace, stability and progress based on cooperation. Our Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan says we want to have friends rather than enemies. However, we
cannot allow our people to be cast slurs on once their wound have not yet healed
Khojaly massacre is sorrow for all of us. We neither forget the history nor want to
build the future on the dark of the past. We curse committers of the massacre. May
Allah rest our dead brothers` souol in peace”
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