Turkey`s Parliament magazine features Khojaly massacre
Baku, February 17 (AZERTAC). Turkey`s Parliament magazine has published an article on the Khojaly massacre.
The article, which contains horrible photographs of the tragedy, underlines that justice was not restored although 22 years have passed since the Khojaly genocide.
Author Deniz Varol said Khojaly is of special importance in the world history as one of the ancient settlement sites.
The article labeled Khojaly as a ‘natural museum’ given it has ancient monuments, which are important for Azerbaijan from the historical point of view.
The author provided an insight into the history and causes of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. He claims that the Khojaly genocide is one of the bloodiest chapters in the history of the Karabakh war. According to him, the stories of the genocide witnesses about physical and moral tortures are not tolerable. On February 26, 1992, a terrible tragedy happened in Khojaly before the very eyes of the world community. Helped by the 366th armored and infantry regiment the Armenian armed forces brutally massacred unarmed and defenseless Khojaly Azerbaijanis, including children, women and the elderly, and tortured those who survived. The massacre claimed lives of 613 civilians, including 106 women, 83 children, and 70 elders. Some 1,275 civilians were captured, with 150 of them still missing, it reads.
The article underlined that the Khojaly massacre was recognized as genocide by the parliaments of the US States of Massachusetts, Texas, New Jersey, Georgia, Mein, New Mexico, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Connecticut, Florida as well as Czech Republic, Mexico, Columbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Peru and Pakistan.
The information on the tragedy provided by world media outlets and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan`s acknowledgement of committing the massacre on purpose can be found in the article.
The Parliament magazine`s special edition provided the interview with rector of the Giresun University of Turkey Aygun Attar.
The rector said in the interview that the Khojaly massacre`s recognition as the genocide is what the Turkic world is seeking. Attar underlined that despite the Bishkek protocol on cease-fire signed in 1994, the Karabakh problem continues with the heart of the Turkic world bleeding. He said turning a blind eye to the outrages on humanity committed in Khojaly and Srebrenica is as such a crime against humanity.
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