AZERIS STAGING PROTESTS AT YEREVAN’S GENOCIDE CLAIMS

AzerNews Weekly, Azerbaijan
April 27 2006

Azerbaijani and Turkish communities are staging actions of protest
worldwide to condemn the so-called Armenian genocide campaign. The
Armenians allege that on April 24, 1915, they fell victim to genocide
on the part of the Turks.

The objective of the Azerbaijani and Turkish communities is to provide
an accurate account of what really happened in Turkey in 1915. The
World Azerbaijanis Congress is now conducting one such action in the
capital of Russia’s Tatarstan, Kazan.

Ethnic Azeris and Turks are expected to launch a series of protests in
a number of American and European countries to counter the genocide
claims. A representative of the US-Azerbaijan Friendship Society,
Badir Mammadli, said in Washington that large-scale campaigns will
be held outside the Turkish embassy. For this, posters and photo
stands have been prepared documenting the atrocities unleashed by
the Armenians in Khojaly. Hundreds of civilians were brutally killed
by Armenian forces in the Khojaly district on February 26, 1992,
which marks one of the bloodiest pages in Azerbaijan’s history. A
representative of the Movement for Azerbaijan in Germany, Guldana
Rzayeva, said local Turks and Jews would join the actions of protest
to be staged by the movement. Similar actions will be held through
May 8 in many parts of the world.