Anadolu Agency
Feb 26 2005

Kurkcuoglu: Historians’ Recording Khojaly Massacre As A Crime Against
Humanity Will Be The Best Answer To Allegations Of So-called Armenian
Genocide
By Anadolu Agency
Published: 2/26/2005
TurkishPress.com

ERZURUM – Associate Prof. Erol Kurkcuoglu, director of the Ataturk
University Turkish-Armenian Relations Study Center, said on Saturday
that historians’ recording Khojaly massacre as a crime against
humanity would be the best answer to the allegations of so-called
Armenian genocide.

Releasing a statement on the 13th anniversary of the massacre,
Kurkcuoglu recalled, ”Azerbaijani town of Khojaly (Xocali) became a
symbol of unprecedented brutality against peaceful civilians and
crimes against humanity. On February 26th, 1992, Armenian armed
forces massacred 613 civilians including 106 women and 63 children
and destroyed the town in what the Human Rights Watch called ‘the
largest massacre to date in the conflict’. They also took 1,275
Azerbaijani people hostage.”

”Three days after the massacre, Chingiz Mustafayev, the cameraman of
K-25 Studio, filmed the aftermath of what happened in Khojaly
together with foreign journalists. The film revealed that those who
were massacred by Armenians, were innocent civilians,” he said.

Kurkcuoglu added that historians’ recording Khojaly massacre as a
crime against humanity would be the best answer to the allegations of
so-called Armenian genocide.