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Baku/26.02.21/Turan: On February 26, President Ilham Aliyev and First Vice President Mehriban Aliyeva commemorated the victims of the Khojaly genocide by laying a wreath at the Mother's Call memorial in Baku.
The Khojaly genocide was committed on the night of February 25-26, 1992. On the night of February 25-26, 1992, after massive artillery strikes, Armenian armed formations with the support of the 366th motorized rifle regiment of the former USSR occupied Khojaly. Having defeated Khojaly, the invaders committed genocide of its peaceful population with particular cruelty.
5,379 residents of the city were forcibly expelled, 1,275 people were taken captive and hostage, subjected to torture (of which the fate of 150 people, including 68 women and 26 children, is currently unknown), 487 people received bodily injuries of varying severity, 8 families were completely destroyed, 130 children lost one of their parents, 25 children - both parents, 613 people, including 63 and 70 old people were brutally tortured under torture. —0-
Politics
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Polad Aslanov, founder of the religious website xeberman.com, who went on hunger strike in the colony on 4 November, was forcibly transferred to the Penitentiary Service hospital in the evening of the same day. This was reported to Turan by his wife Gulmira Aslanov.
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The Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Azerbaijan is pleased to announce the preopening of the Ukrainian Center in Baku, scheduled for 9 November 2024 at 12 pm. The Ukrainian Center, originally established to promote Ukrainian culture, language, heritage and education in Azerbaijan, has been renovated and expanded to better serve its mission.
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The health condition of activist Nijat Ibrahim has sharply worsened while he remains in Baku's Detention Center No. 1, his wife Parvin Ibrahim told Turan news agency. According to her, Ibrahim called today to report severe back pain, and he can barely move. Recently, his blood pressure has also risen, and doctors have diagnosed him with hypertension.
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On Sunday, November 5, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Kyrgyzstan to participate in the 11th Summit of Heads of State of the Organization of Turkic States. Upon his arrival at Manas 2 International Airport in Bishkek, Aliyev was greeted with a ceremonial honor guard and welcomed by Kyrgyzstan’s Prime Minister and Chief of Staff, Akylbek Japarov, along with other officials.
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