Turkiye's Chief Ombudsman: Planting mines in Azerbaijani territories by Armenia violates human rights

Planting mines in Azerbaijani territories by Armenia is a violation of human rights and international humanitarian law, Chief Ombudsman of Turkiye Seref Malkoc said at the meeting of the Asian Ombudsman Association in Baku, according to Report.

"We saw how human rights were violated, we visited Azerbaijan to get acquainted with the situation and prepared a special report," he said of the 44-day Karabakh war, "Another report was prepared on planting mines in Azerbaijani territories, which is also a violation of human rights."

Seref Malkoc thanked Azerbaijan for hosting a meeting of the Asian Ombudsman Association in Baku.

According to him, a similar meeting took place several years ago in Istanbul, after which the pandemic interrupted their holding for a while.

"However, despite the pandemic, during this period we managed to hold 8 trainings involving the ombudsmen from Azerbaijan, Morocco, Iran and other countries," Malkoc said.