Turkey’s Erdogan offers condolences to Azerbaijani people over Khojaly genocide
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered condolences
to Azerbaijani people over the Khojaly genocide, AzerTag
reports.
The president stressed that in 1992, Azerbaijanis were subjected to
massacre.
Erdogan noted that 613 Azerbaijanis were savagely killed in
Khojaly, part of the Nagorno-Karabakh, which is still under
occupation of Armenia.
“We commemorate our martyrs, and pray for them. We express
condolences to Azerbaijani people and President Ilham Aliyev,” he
underlined.
In 1992, the town of Khojaly came under intense fire from the towns of Khankendi and Askeran already occupied by the Armenian armed forces. 613 civilians mostly women and children were killed in the massacre, and a total of 1,000 people were disabled. Eight families were exterminated, 25 children lost both parents, and 130 children lost one parent.
Moreover, 1,275 innocent people were taken hostage, the fate of 150 of them remains unknown. Many civilians were shot at close range, scalped or burned alive.
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