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THE OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF TÜRKİYE

Visit to Republic of Azerbaijan (21-23 October)
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The attacks initiated by Armenia on the date of 27 of September 2020 and the media
coverage displaying numerous injuries and casualties among the civilians due to these
attacks called the utmost attention of the Turkish Ombudsman Institution which
serves as an independent human rights institution. Furthermore, in the virtual meeting
dated on the 14th of October 2020, one of the executive board members of the
OICOA -the Azerbaijani Ombudsperson Sabina Aliyeva invited all the board member
institutions to pay a visit to Azerbaijan in order to peruse the allegations in-situ. Şeref
Malkoç accepted this invitation as the president of OICOA in addition to his role as
the head of a human rights institution. The delegation led by Şeref Malkoç paid an
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inspection visit to Azerbaijan between the dates of 21st-23 of October.
During the visit, the President of OICOA, Mr. Şeref Malkoç held meetings with
many high level officials of Azerbaijan including the President of Azerbaijan, Mr.
İlham Aliyev, Mr. Fikret Memmedov, Minister of Justice of Republic of Azerbaijan;
Mr. Farhad Abdullayev, Chairman of Constitutional Court; Chief Prosecutor Kamran
Aliyev; Tural Ganjaliyev, Chairman of the Azerbaijani Community of the Nagorno-
Karabakh Region of Azerbaijan; and Zeki Öztürk, Consul-General of the Republic of
Türkiye to Ganja. During these meetings, official information was obtained regarding
the situation. Furthermore, the cities of Ganja and Mingachevir were visited in order to
make an on-site inspection, as residential areas were bombed and a significant number
of civilians purportedly lost their lives in these cities.

Following the visit, a comprehensive Report was prepared based on the findings
obtained through on-site investigations and observations of the human rights violations
resulting from the attacks launched by the Armenian Armed Forces against innocent
Azerbaijani civilians between 27th September and 10th November 2020. The Report
on Human Rights Violations Committed by the Armenian Armed Forces during the
Azerbaijan-Armenia War was also translated into English.

The Report is available at the following link:

https://www.ombudsman.gov.tr/kdk-pdf/AzerbaycanRaporuingilizce/file.pdf

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