Bill on Khojaly genocide to be tabled in Turkish parliament
A Turkish lawmaker has said a draft law on recognizing the Khojaly genocide committed by Armenians against Azerbaijanis in 1992, one of the 20th century’s gravest crimes, will be submitted to Turkey’s parliament ahead of the tragedy’s anniversary on February 25-26.
Addressing a news conference, Sinan Ogan of the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) also said the Grand National Assembly is due to discuss the proposals on erecting a monument to the Khojaly victims in Ankara and naming a central street in the Turkish capital "Khojaly".
During the war fought with Azerbaijan in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces attacked Azerbaijani civilians in Khojaly, a town located in Azerbaijan’s Nagorno Karabakh region. 613 people were brutally killed, while 1,275 were taken captives, and hundreds of others were disabled and went missing.
Ogan added that in protest at the French National Assembly’s recent passage of a bill outlawing denial of the alleged "genocide" of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey, the MHP will make a proposal in the legislature to rename the Paris Avenue in Ankara into "Algeria Avenue".
This story is published by AzerNEWS Weekly under a project funded by the Foundation for State Assistance to the Development of the Media under the President of the Azerbaijan Republic.
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