RA Ministry of Justice issued a message claiming that it did not hand over Kurds Atila Çiçek and Husei Yıldırım to Turkey.

"In addition to the NSS message, we inform you that the Ministry of Justice is authorized to transfer the convict to his country of citizenship to serve the rest of the sentence. However, the transfer of Kurdish people to Turkey, which was spread on the Internet by the Ministry of Justice, was not carried out.

Moreover, the issue of handover or transfer of the mentioned persons was not discussed in the ministry," the statement said.

Earlier, the NSS announced that the process of handing over convicted persons within the framework of criminal proceedings is beyond the scope of the Service's powers.

It should be reminded that today it became known that Armenia handed over two Kurdish fighters to Turkey.