TURKEY`s NGOs APPEAL TO GNAT TO RECOGNIZE KHOJALY TRAGEDY AS GENOCIDE
The offer to appeal to the parliament was made on February 9 by the heads of NGOs, municipality chiefs. The appeal informs on bloodshed, as well as massacre committed by Armenians in Khojali on February 25-26 in 1992.
According to the appeal, Armenians killed 613 innocent people, captured 1275 with more than 1000 wounded, and 150 missing. Armenia’s military aggression resulted in occupation of twenty percent of Azerbaijani territories and driving of more than one million people from their homes. The UN Security Council has adopted 4 resolutions on unconditional withdrawal of Armenian military forces from occupied Azerbaijani territories.
Signatories of the appeal called on the GNAT to recognize the bloody massacre in Khojaly as the act of genocide and urged the world`s parliaments to push for withdrawal of Armenian forces from Azerbaijan.
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