Kilicdaroglu wants Türkiye to survive the shame of the events at the Boraltan bridge, President of Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview with the local TRT TV channel.
The Turkish leader was referring to the Boraltan tragedy which occurred in 1944 on the border of Türkiye and Soviet Azerbaijan, when the Republican People's Party was in power in the fraternal country.
At that time official Ankara surrendered more than 100 Azerbaijanis to the USSR. As a result, they were shot dead by the communist regime on the Boraltan bridge on the Azerbaijani-Turkish border.
"They (Azerbaijanis - ed.) turned to us so that they would be killed by us, not by Russians, or by Armenians. Now, after the liberation of Karabakh, we got rid of this black spot. From the very beginning, we have taken a position on this issue based on humanism, Islam and justice," Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
"Our meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is the best example of sensitivity to the Turkic world," he noted.