Turkish Vice President Shares Post On Anniversary Of January 20 Tragedy
Date
1/21/2023 12:38:59 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 20. Turkish Vice
President Fuat Oktay has honored the memory of the martyrs who gave
their lives for the independence of Azerbaijan 33 years ago,
trend reports
citing a tweet of the vice president.
'May the Almighty rest the souls of the heroes whose pain echoes
in our hearts. May Azerbaijan live forever,' the tweet said.
On the night of January 19-20, 1990, as a result of military
aggression of the units of the Soviet army and special forces,
civilians, including children, women and elderly were massacred in
the cities of Baku, Sumgayit, Lankaran and Neftchala by order of
the USSR leadership.
As a result of this military aggression, 149 civilians were
killed, 744 were seriously injured, and 4 people went missing. The
Soviet army was sent to the country in order to forcefully suppress
the mass protests of the Azerbaijani people and the national
independence movement started in response to the discrimination
policy of the USSR leadership against the people of Azerbaijan, the
deportation of hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis from their
historical lands in the territory of present-day Armenia, and
Armenia's unfounded territorial claims against Karabakh committed
an unprecedented massacre against the civilian population.
On January 21, 1990, immediately after the tragic events, at the
Permanent Mission of Azerbaijan in Moscow, National Leader Heydar
Aliyev, demonstrating his solidarity with the Azerbaijani people,
strongly condemned this crime, demanding political and legal
assessment of the massacre, and punishment of the perpetrators. At
the special session of the Milli Majlis (Parliament) held in
February 1994 the brutal killing of innocent people on 20 January
1990 was qualified as military aggression and a crime, and in March
1994 a decision“On the tragic events committed in Baku on 20
January 1990” was adopted. January 20 was declared National
Mourning Day.
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