A press release on the 28th anniversary of the Khojaly Genocide was read by Atatürk University Turkish-Armenian Relations Research Center Directorate.

Turkish-Armenian Relations Research Center Director Professor Dr. Erol Kürkçüoğlu, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Letters, Assoc. Dr. Ali Yalçın Tavukçu Assistant Director of the Institute of Turkic Studies Assoc. Dr. Yasin Topaloğlu, academics and students attended at the commemoration ceremony held at the Kars Gate Martyrdom.  

Professor Dr. Erol Kürkçüoğlu, who made a speech on the meaning and importance of the day before reading the press release in the program, first gave information about the Kars Gate Martyrdom region.

Kürkçüoğlu, who said that the Russians withdrew from the Erzurum state with the Bolshevik Revolution, and the soldiers from the Russians, who left the army of 400, consisted of the civilian people who were not involved in the war around the Kars Gate Martyrdom.

"That Day was the Black Day of Turks Living All Over the World"

After reading the press release entitled “Hodja's Tragedy is the Face of Humanity”, Deputy Director of Turkish-Armenian Relations Research Center. Lecturer member Mevlüt Yüksel,  stated that February 26, 1992 is a day of shame for humanity.

In the continuation of the statement, Yüksel said: “That day is the day when the foya, double standard of fake western humanism emerged. It was the dark day of Turks living all over the world. The wildest massacre in the world occurred at the end of the 20th century that day. Those who were killed in Khojaly that day were oppressed, innocent and their only crime was being Turkish. So they were persecuted and massacred. ”

“613 Azerbaijan Turks Under Genocide”

Yüksel pointed out that a complete “Turkish Genocide” was held on February 26, 1992 in Khojaly, the history of the Turkish Karabakh, Oguz Dormitory. In February 1992 of the 366th regiment of the Armenian army and the Russian Armed Forces deployed in Upper Karabakh, 613 Azerbaijani Turks were subjected to genocide, including 106 women and 63 children. 56 of them were burned and their heads were cut off. After the Khojaly massacre, 1275 Azerbaijan Turks were also captured. In addition, after the mass destruction of the Khojaly genocide, only 500 people survived from the city population of 7 thousand people. ”

After the program, the students visited the Kars Gate Martyr,  prayed and left cloves in the martyrs' graves.

CORPORATE COMMUNICATION DIRECTORATE - 26.02.2020