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By Jamila Babayeva

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the Khojaly tragedy will be remembered for all time.

Davutoglu posted this statement in his official Twitter page.

He noted the Khojaly genocide is not only the tragedy of Azerbaijan, but also the tragedy of the Anatolian Turks.

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Emrullah İsler, in turn, said Turkey will never forget the tragic events in Khojaly.

"Turkey has always supported and will continue to support Azerbaijan," he wrote in his Twitter account on February 26.

On February 25-26, 1992, the town of Khojaly, the second largest town in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, came under intense fire from the towns of Khankendi and Askeran already occupied by the Armenian armed forces.

As many as 613 civilians including 106 women, 70 elderly, and 83 children were killed in the massacre, and a total of 1,000 civilians were disabled. Eight families were exterminated, 25 children lost both their parents, and 130 children lost one parent.

Moreover, 1,275 innocent people were taken hostage, and the fate of 150 of them remains unknown. Civilians were shot at close range, scalped, and burned alive. Some had their eyes gouged out and others were beheaded.