Turkish Bones Collected and Claimed as DNA Matches: Families of Missing Soldiers Protest Outside Government

Families of missing soldiers are protesting outside the government, demanding the retrieval and return of their children. One of the parents, a participant in the Artsakh Liberation War who was also injured, stated: "At that time, the number of mercenaries on the Turkish side did not exceed 10 percent; now it is 90 percent mercenaries. Today, reports come from everywhere about brought corpses, but what corpses? They are delivering unidentifiable bones. Both Turks and our heroic children have fallen in the same area. Now they have collected the bones of Turks and are claiming that DNA matches. Our children were identifiable at that time; they delayed so that they would turn into bones. Now they are handing bones to people and saying that DNA matches."

"We do not have our own apparatus to confirm this. God forbid, if they bring us even one little bone, we have no means to send it somewhere for verification," he added.