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    Swiss authorities investigating Turkish politician accused of
    violating anti-racism laws

    .c The Associated Press


    WINTERTHUR, Switzerland (AP) - A criminal investigation has been
    launched into a Turkish politician suspected of violating Swiss
    anti-racism laws by denying that the killings of Armenians around the
    time of World War I amounted to genocide, authorities in Switzerland
    said Sunday.

    Dogu Perincek, former chairman of Turkey's Workers' Party, is accused
    of denying genocide during a speech held last week in the Swiss town
    of Opfikon-Glattburg, the prosecutor's office in the canton (state) of
    Winterthur and the police department of Zurich said in a joint
    statement.

    In the speech to honor the 82nd anniversary of the Treaty of Lausanne,
    which fixed the borders of modern-day Turkey, Perincek called claims
    of genocide against the Armenians an imperialist lie, authorities
    said.

    Under Swiss law, any act of denying, belittling or justifying genocide
    is a violation of the country's anti-racism laws.

    Armenians say 1.5 million of their people were killed as the Ottoman
    Empire forced them from eastern Turkey between 1915 and 1923 - and
    that this was a deliberate campaign of genocide by Turkey's rulers at
    that time.

    Turks say the death count is inflated and insist that Armenians were
    killed or displaced as the Ottoman Empire tried to secure its border
    with Russia and stop attacks by Armenian militants.

    Switzerland and Turkey have squared off in the past over the killings.

    In June, a Turkish Cabinet minister postponed a visit to Switzerland
    to protest a Swiss investigation of a Turkish historian who made a
    similar speech denying that the mass killings of Armenians in the
    early 1900s amounted to genocide.

    Micheline Calmy-Rey, the Swiss foreign minister, had been scheduled to
    travel to Turkey in 2003, but Turkey withdrew its invitation after the
    parliament of a western Swiss canton (state) recognized the killings
    of Armenians in Turkey as genocide. Calmy-Rey visited Turkey in March.



    07/24/05 09:41 EDT



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      Deutsche Presse-Agentur
      July 24, 2005, Sunday
      15:45:29 Central European Time

      Turkish politician repeats denial of Armenian genocide

      Lausanne/Ankara

      A Turkish politician repeated Sunday his claim that it was an
      "international lie" to speak of genocide of Armenians during World
      War I.

      Dogu Perincek, chairman of the Turkish Labour Party, was speaking at
      a ceremony in Lausanne marking the signing of the treaty establishing
      the modern Turkish state in the Swiss city on 24 July 1923.

      Perincek was detained Saturday by the Swiss authorities and
      questioned by a state prosecutor for two hours about making the same
      claim at a conference in Winterthur earlier this year, Zurich police
      said.

      The public denial of genocide is a crime in Switzerland.

      The Turkish government Sunday called Perincek's temporary detention
      in Switzerland "unacceptable".

      The arrest was "completely inconsistent with the principle of freedom
      of opinion", said Turkey's Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul in Ankara.

      Around 300 Kurds, Armenians and Assyrians demonstrated at Sunday's
      ceremony, protesting that the 1923 treaty destroyed their hopes of
      independence and autonomy.

      Turkey refuses to label as genocide the deaths of hundreds of
      thousands of Armenians during forced expulsions under the Ottoman
      Empire. dpa bi mga gm pmc pb

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      • #13
        i know this guy... he will keep on repeating same things till swiss people get bored of him and ship him back to turkey

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