The New Anatolian: 'Why do Dink's mourners ignore Khojaly massacre?'

"This person died and everyone protested," he said. "All the so-called liberals in Turkey took to the streets and all of them needed to declare, 'We are all Armenians.' Yet, they are ignorant of the Khojaly massacre, which took place 15 years ago."

Speaking at a conference organized by Alperen Ocagi, an ultranationalist political youth group known for its closeness to the BBP, to commemorate and discuss the Khojaly massacre, Yazicioglu criticized the stronger reactions to the assassination over the Khojaly massacre.

The BBP leader, in a statement sent to Parliament two years ago, proposed commemorating Feb. 26 as "Azerbaijani Massacre Day" and demanded the construction of a memorial.

Yazicioglu said that the world could only see such a brutality from Armenians, citing footage of the event. "Armenians slew 613 Azerbaijani civilians on Feb. 26, 1992," he claimed. ".There has been an attempt to cover the massacre up. You accepted the (2004) Annan plan for the island of Cyprus. Did the West love you? You ignored the massacre in Khojaly. Did the West love you? You didn't raise your voice about the Turkmen massacre in Tal Afer, Iraq. Did the U.S. love you?"

Delivering a speech at the conference, Namik Kemal Zeybek, a BBP advisor, claimed that there are other inhumane events in Armenian history and that the Khojaly massacre is a typical example of this.

Jeyhun Memmedov, counselor of the Azerbaijani Embassy, said that Azerbaijan will take its land back sooner or later. "Now Azerbaijan is a very powerful country. The defense budget of the country is equal to the Armenia's total budget," he said. The New Anatolian