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Turkey would always stand by Azerbaijan

Turkey would always stand by Azerbaijan
26.02.2018 13:30
Turkish Presidential Spokesman İbrahim Kalın has remembered the victims of Khojaly Massacre, which took place in 1992 in Azerbaijan's now-occupied region of Karabakh during the war with Armenia, Turkish media reported.

On his Twitter account, Kalın wrote: "I commemorate our martyrs on the anniversary of the Khojaly Massacre, in which 613 of our innocent Azerbaijani brothers were slaughtered by the Armenian forces in Upper Karabakh in the evening of Feb. 25-26, 1992." In his tweet, Kalın added that Turkey would always stand by Azerbaijan.
 
On February 26, 1992, Armenian military committed an act of genocide against the 7,000 population of the Azerbaijani town of Khojaly.

As many as 613 people, including 63 children, 106 women and 70 old people were killed as a result of the massacre. A total of 1,000 civilians became disabled in the onslaught. Eight families were completely annihilated, 130 children lost one parent, while 25 lost both parents. Some 1,275 innocent residents were taken hostage, while the fate of 150 people still remains unknown.

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