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Turkey's ruling party makes statement on Khojaly genocide

26 February 2009 [13:12] - TODAY.AZ
Turkey`s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) 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” .

/AzerTac/

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