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MP Canan Aritman: No government in Turkey has a right and authority to aggrieve our Azerbaijani brothers

26 February 2009 14:26 (UTC +04:00)

Member of Parliament representing Republican Peopleâ€™s Party (CHP) from Izmir Canan Aritman said the atrocity in Khojaly was the black day of Azerbaijan, Turkic world and the whole mankind. She said thousands of people were atrociously killed, underwent torture within the plan of clearing Nagorno Karabakh of Turks and establishing â€œGreat Armeniaâ€.
â€œThe peopleâ€™s eyes were gouged out, they were skinned, abdomens of pregnant women were cut and babies were burnt. How can Armenians demand recognition of the so-called genocide after all this?â€

Citing Zori Balayanâ€™s book â€œRevival of our spiritâ€ Canan Aritman told the parliamentarians that atrocities were committed against Azerbaijani children in Karabakh. Ms. Aritman condemned the persons carrying out Armenian apology campaign in Turkey.
â€œWill these people demand Armenians to apologize for Khojaly? I do not believe it. They are doomed to live in disgrace and will drown in this disgrace,â€ she said.

Canan Aritman said as a result of Armeniansâ€™ aggressive policy 20 percent of Azerbaijani territories had been occupied and one million people displaced.
â€œThe only guilt of the people in Khojaly was that they were Turks. Hundreds of thousands of Turks were killed both in Azerbaijan and Anatolia within the past century. There is no Turk in Armenia or the occupied territories. But there still are thousands of Armenians in Azerbaijan,â€ she said.

The oppositionist MP focused on the Armenian intention to recognize the so-called â€œgenocideâ€, not to leave the territorial claim against Turkey and said the lobby efforts were continued in this direction. â€œThey are relying on the Barack Obamaâ€™s promise and trying to achieve the recognition of the â€œgenocideâ€ in America this year. Unfortunately we lost the support of Jewish lobby after the Prime Ministerâ€™s action in Davos. The state figure shouldnâ€™t be in such manner. As the honorable leader of our party Deniz Baykal affirms the state figure cannot visit Yerevan while Armenia is not withdrawn from the occupied lands, cannot open the borders and must achieve the returning of the occupied landsâ€.

Aritman ended her speech with quotes from Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. â€œGreat Ataturk said â€œAzerbaijanâ€™s happiness is our happiness and its grieve is our grieveâ€. Turkeyâ€™s policy toward Azerbaijan was always so and will remain so. No government in Turkey has a right and authority to aggrieve our Azerbaijani brothersâ€.

During her speech, Canan Aritman showed large photos describing horrors of Khojaly.