Azerbaijani MP Ganira Pashayeva would like the Turkish parliament to recognize the massacre in Khojaly as genocide.
Recognition of the tragedy in Khojaly as genocide is raised in the Turkish parliament every year before the Khojaly anniversary, which falls on 26 February, Pashayeva said yesterday.
“Earlier, the Turkish parliament called for those responsible for the Khojaly events to be punished. We, the citizens of Azerbaijan, very much want the parliament of our neighbour to hold hearings on this issue and adopt a document on recognition of the events as genocide,” Pashayeva said.
She acknowledged that much work remained to be done to achieve recognition. “We should work towards this in the parliaments of other countries. There is no doubt that great responsibility for the issue lies not only with Azerbaijan’s diplomatic representations abroad but also with the Azerbaijani diaspora. Unfortunately, interest in the issues of national concern is just growing among the foreign diaspora.
Certainly, only large-scale and comprehensive work towards this will result in recognition of the events in Khojaly as genocide in the future. The recognition of genocide in Khojaly by the Turkish parliament is hampered by several factors of international policy. However, all of us want fraternal Turkey to be the first foreign country to recognize genocide in Khojaly,” Pashayeva said.
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