Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Turkey has issued a statement on 28 anniversary of Khojaly genocide, APA’s Turkish bureau reports.

The statement reads:

"On 26 February 1992, by the troops of the Republic of Armenia during their attack in Khojaly town in Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh region, 613 innocent Azerbaijani citizens including 106 women, 63 children and 70 elderly were brutally massacred, hundreds more were wounded. Also, more than a thousand people were taken hostages. The fate of the missing people is still unknown today.