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On February 26, thousands of racists gathered at the Taksim Square in Istanbul under the name of "protesting the Khocaly massacre" and shouted racist slogans against the Armenians such as "Armenian bastards cannot intimidate us", "Greek, French, Armenian: They are the enemies of all Turks", "We are all Turks", "You are all Armenians, you are all bastards" (responding the slogan of solidarity "We are all Hrant Dink, we are all Armenians).{divide}
In 1992, during the Nagorno-Karabakh War, hundreds of Azerbaicani civilians were killed in the village Khocaly by the Armenian forces.
Reactionary workers' unions Turk-Is and Hak-Is joined this racist rally instead of giving support to the action of KESK organised on the same day at Kadikoy Square.
The racist fascist Minister of Internal Affairs Idris Naim Sahin, often compared with German fascist minister Goebbels by the revolutionary and anti-fascist forces, made a speech at the demonstration. He claimed that many demonstrations were organised at Taksim Square but none of them was "so fraternal and full of affection".
After the demonstration, the fascists attacked the buses in front of the BDP office near Taksim.
The "Platform of the Socialist Azerbaijanis in Turkey" organised another action in Ankara opening a banner written "Long live the brotherhood of the peoples". They said that hatred against the Armenians became an indispensable part of the developing relations between the Turkish and Azerbaijani states. They said that the Azerbaijani nationalists and Turkish nationalists try to play the Khocaly massacre as a card against the draft law against the denial of the Armenian Genocide in France, that they do not carry a bit of pain on their faces concerning the massacre and that they only want to compare pain with pain to raise their advantages. They said that the responsible ones for the Khocaly massacre should be brought into justice, but at the same time any act that feeds the enmity among the peoples should end.
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