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    Report: Turkish FM criticizes Switzerland for detaining Turkish
    politician

    AP Worldstream; Jul 25, 2005


    Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul criticized Switzerland for
    briefly detaining a Turkish politician on suspicion of violating Swiss
    anti-racism laws by denying that the killings of Armenians around the
    time of World War I amounted to genocide, a newspaper reported Monday.

    "It is not possible for us to accept these things to be done to the
    leader of a political party in Turkey," Gul was quoted saying in
    Hurriyet newspaper. "Do these actions suit a country like
    Switzerland?"

    Switzerland briefly detained and launched a criminal investigation
    into Dogu Perincek, leader of Turkey's Workers' Party last week after
    a speech he held in the Swiss town of Opfikon-Glattburg, in the canton
    (state) of Winterthur.

    In the speech honoring 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, Swiss
    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.

  • #2
    Turkey summons Swiss envoy over genocide-denier's detention

    Anatolia news agency
    27 Jul 05

    Ankara, 27 July: Turkey has conveyed its uneasiness over Swiss
    attitude against Labour Party (IP) leader Dogu Perincek by inviting
    Swiss Ambassador in Ankara Walter Gyger to the Turkish Ministry of
    Foreign Affairs (MFA).

    According to sources, MFA Deputy Undersecretary Nabi Sensoy has
    conveyed Turkey's disappointment over Perincek's being taken into
    custody by Swiss prosecutor under charges that Perincek refused to
    recognize the so-called Armenian genocide.

    During the meeting between Sensoy and Gyger, Sensoy reminded Gyger
    that the events of 1915 were not a genocide. According to the
    international treaty of 1948 on the prevention and punishment of
    genocide, in order to name an incident genocide, certain conditions
    must prevail and an international court decides on the matter. To this
    day, there is no decision by an international court that 1915
    witnessed a genocide.

    Sensoy informed Gyger that the Swiss attitude would block freedom of
    expression and such an attitude would hurt bilateral ties.

    Perincek was detained after making the remark that "Armenian genocide
    is an international lie" in a press conference held in Swiss city of
    Winterthur on 23 July.

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    • #3
      TURKEY ADDRESSES NOTE TO SWITZERLAND ON PERINCEK CASE

      Azg/arm
      28 July 05

      Armenian Genocide denial is a punishable offence in Switzerland. 3
      years in prison await every denier according to the penal code of the
      country. In this regard, it was not strange perhaps that the chairman
      of Workers' Party, Dogu Perincek, was detained for interrogation in
      Winterthur, July 23.

      Perincek was detained for "Armenian genocide is a great international
      lie" statement uttered during celebration of 82d anniversary of the
      Lausanne Treaty. He was release after Turkish Foreign Ministry
      interfered.

      Among the set of measures that Turkish authorities took concerning
      this incident, Turkish NTV singles out on July 27 Turkey's note that
      is to be handed to Swiss ambassador to Ankara and to Swiss authorities
      in Berlin today. While Switzerland is still to respond to the Turkish
      note, the Perincek case is still under investigation in Winterthur,
      otherwise NTV wouldn't says, "Even if Perincek case gets suspended,
      Turkey will still push for the note".

      Dogu Perincek, former convict, is a Maoist. He organized the march in
      Switzerland together with Turkish nationalists. As the majority of
      Turkish Maoists, Perincek seems also to enjoy good relations with
      secret services of Turkey.

      By Hakob Chakrian

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      • #4
        Ties with Switzerland may sour again over Perinçek

        Wednesday, July 27, 2005

        DIPLOMACY


        ANKARA - Turkish Daily News

        The detention of Workers' Party (IP) leader Dogu Perinçek in
        Switzerland over remarks he made denying allegations of an Armenian
        genocide, following a probe into a Turkish historian over the same
        issue, will not contribute positively to political relations between
        Turkey and Switzerland, Foreign Ministry spokesman Namik Tan said
        yesterday.

        Perinçek was detained over the weekend on suspicion of violating Swiss
        anti-racism laws by denying allegations that Armenians were victims of
        genocide at the hands of the late Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the
        last century.

        Perinçek was delivering a speech at a conference on Friday in the
        Swiss town of Opfikon-Glattburg on the 82nd anniversary of the signing
        of the Lausanne Treaty, which lays the foundation of the modern Turkish
        Republic.

        The politician was released after being questioned at the prosecutor's
        office in the canton of Winterthur for more than three hours.

        Turkish officials said Swiss ambassador in Ankara would be summoned to
        the Foreign Ministry today (Wednesday) and the Turkish ambassador in
        Bern would have contacts at the Swiss Foreign Ministry in the same day
        on the issue, but added that there was no plan to deliver a note of
        protest to the Swiss authorities at the moment.

        `Turkey will adopt a position in accordance with a decision to be made
        by the Swiss prosecutor. That is to say, we will see whether the
        prosecutor files a public case or quashes the charge,' Tan said at the
        weekly press conference earlier in the day in response to a question
        whether the Swiss ambassador in Ankara might be summoned to the Foreign
        Ministry to protest the Swiss move.

        `However, it is evident that the emergence of a second incident after
        that of Mr. Halaçoglu will not contribute to good relations. We'll
        follow closely the developments both in Ankara and in Berne,' Tan added.

        Perinçek is the second Turkish citizen to have experienced a similar
        situation in Switzerland for denying the alleged genocide. An inquiry
        was opened in May into Yusuf Halaçoglu, head of the Turkish Historical
        Society (TTK), for public remarks in Switzerland on the so-called
        Armenian genocide.

        In comments over Perinçek's detention, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül
        has expressed regret and said it was unacceptable.

        Switzerland and Turkey have had disagreements in the past over the
        alleged genocide. In June, a Turkish Cabinet minister postponed a visit
        to Switzerland in protest of the Swiss investigation into Halaçoglu.

        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 recognized the killings of
        Armenians in Turkey as genocide. Calmy-Rey eventually visited Turkey in
        March.

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        • #5
          I seriously think we should write a letter thanking them for this... Maybe Bush can learn a little from Switzerland!

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          • #6
            Armenian Issue: Switzerland Surprised At Turkey's Protests

            PanArmenian News Network
            July 29 2005

            ARMENIAN ISSUE: SWITZERLAND SURPRISED AT TURKEY'S PROTESTS


            29.07.2005 04:58

            /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Federal department of the Swiss Foreign Ministry
            supported the adaptability of the Swiss legislative against Chairman
            of the Turkish Labor Party Dogu Perincek, who has publicly denied the
            Armenian Genocide, Tagblatt daily reports. After the Turkish Foreign
            Ministry subjected to sharp criticism Swiss Ambassador to Turkey
            Walter B. Gyger met with the head of the Swiss MFA department of
            foreign affairs, who was extremely surprised at the ongoing protests
            of the Turkish party. The Swiss Penal Code says that denial,
            understatement or approval of genocide and crimes against humanity
            are penal actions. Nevertheless Switzerland welcomed the proposal by
            the Turkish government on formation of a joint Armenian-Turkish
            commission to investigate the fact of the Armenian Genocide.

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            • #7
              Swiss Parliamentarian: Turkey Bound To Acknowledge Armenian Genocide

              PanArmenian News Network
              July 29 2005

              SWISS PARLIAMENTARIAN: TURKEY BOUND TO ACKNOWLEDGE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

              29.07.2005 04:30

              /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Chairman of the commission for foreign affairs of
              the Swiss House of Representatives Ervin Jutset stated that Turkey
              must acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, otherwise it will face
              serious problems with the EU. In his words, Turkey should abandon its
              tone of aggression and blackmail and proceed to reform. When
              commenting on the criminal prosecution against Chairman of the
              Turkish Union of Historians Yusuf Ghalaoghlu and Chairman of the
              Turkish Labor Party Dogu Perincek, who keep on denying the Armenian
              Genocide, the Swiss parliamentarian that unless Turkey assumes the
              responsibility for the Armenian Genocide it will perceive any events
              of the kind oversensitively, Yerkir online reports.

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              • #8
                Turkey Protests Switzerland's Detention Of Perincek

                Turkish Press
                July 29 2005

                Press Review

                HURRIYET

                TURKEY PROTESTS SWITZERLAND'S DETENTION OF PERINCEK

                Turkey yesterday filed an official protest of Switzerland's detention
                last week of Turkish Worker's Party (IP) leader Dogu Perincek for
                denying the so-called Armenian genocide. Turkey filed the protest in
                both Ankara and Bern. Swiss Ambassador to Ankara Waltre Gyger was
                summoned by Foreign Ministry Deputy Undersecretary Nabi Sensoy to the
                ministry to receive Ankara's protest. In addition, Turkish Ambassador
                to Bern Alev Kilic went to the Swiss Foreign Ministry to deliver the
                protest. `Saying that the incidents of 1915 were not genocide is not
                a crime,' said the protest. `If it was, Switzerland's stance would
                violate the freedom of expression, one of our bedrock rights and
                freedoms. Such deplorable treatment of a Turkish citizen threatens to
                seriously damage relations between our countries.' /Hurriyet/

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                • #9
                  Report: Turkey may block Swiss politician's planned visit

                  Report: Turkey may block Swiss politician's planned visit

                  .c The Associated Press


                  ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) - Turkey may block a planned visit of
                  Switzerland's economics minister, a Swiss newspaper reported Sunday,
                  the latest episode in a long-running diplomatic dispute between the
                  two governments.

                  The Turkish ambassador to Switzerland, Alev Kilic, told NZZ am Sonntag
                  he couldn't rule out that Joseph Deiss' September trip would be
                  canceled.

                  At the core of the dispute are Turkey's killings of Armenians around
                  the time of World War I, considered by the Swiss and some other
                  governments to have amounted to genocide - something Ankara fiercely
                  denies.

                  Ankara was angered two weeks ago when Swiss authorities launched an
                  investigation into a visiting Turkish politician, Dogu Perincek, who
                  said the killings weren't genocide.

                  Under Switzerland's anti-racism laws, denying genocide is a crime, and
                  Perincek was briefly detained after his speech.

                  Last week, Turkey called the Swiss ambassador to the Foreign Ministry
                  to protest Perincek's detention and investigation.

                  In the NZZ am Sonntag interview, Kilic said the investigation was an
                  attempt to squelch free speech and sent a ``grave signal'' to Turks
                  living in Switzerland to ``keep their mouths shut.''

                  Meanwhile, Perincek reiterated his earlier comments in an interview
                  with another Swiss newspaper on Sunday.

                  ``There has never been a genocide, that is an international historic
                  lie,'' he told SonntagsBlick.

                  Similar disputes have erupted in the past between Turkey and
                  Switzerland.

                  In June, a Turkish Cabinet minister postponed a visit to Switzerland
                  to protest an investigation of a Turkish historian who denied the
                  killings were a genocide.

                  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) approved a motion calling the killings a
                  genocide.



                  07/31/05 08:58 EDT

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                  • #10
                    Perinçek once more denies Armenian genocide

                    Swissinfo, Switzerland
                    July 31 2005

                    Perinçek once more denies Armenian genocide


                    Turkish politician Doğu Perinçek, under investigation in
                    Switzerland for denying Armenian genocide, has compared Swiss law
                    with that of the Inquisition.

                    In a newspaper interview published on Sunday, Perinçek repeated his
                    revisionist views and called for Swiss anti-racism legislation to be
                    scrapped.

                    The head of Turkey's Workers' Party told the SonntagsBlick that the
                    legislation went against fundamental rights and the freedom of
                    speech.

                    He added that as a result, Switzerland was losing Turkish friendship
                    and respect from the rest of the world.

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

                    Perinçek's party obtained 0.51 per cent of the vote in Turkey's last
                    legislative elections in November 2002. There is therefore no party
                    member in Turkey's Grand National Assembly.

                    Treaty of Lausanne

                    "There was no Armenian genocide," he told the SonntagsBlick. Perinçek
                    had also expressed his revisionist views last weekend at celebrations
                    in western Switzerland marking the anniversary of the 1923 Treaty of
                    Lausanne, which defined the borders of modern-day Turkey.

                    Perinçek said he knew that Switzerland had anti-racism laws but did
                    not believe his remarks amounted to provocation. He felt "duty-bound"
                    to express them.

                    The politician compared the threat of a conviction with his
                    experiences in Turkish jails.

                    "Switzerland is worse than Turkey," he said.

                    Perinçek is the subject of two investigations into suspected
                    violation of Swiss anti-racism laws. A similar investigation has been
                    opened in the case of Turkish historian Yusuf Halaçoğlu.

                    Strong criticism

                    The Turkish government in Ankara has strongly criticised the Swiss
                    action.

                    Switzerland's ambassador to Turkey, Walter Gyger, was summoned to the
                    Turkish foreign ministry on Wednesday, while Turkey's envoy to Bern,
                    Alev Kiliç was called to the Swiss foreign ministry the following
                    day.

                    On Sunday, Kiliç warned against limiting the freedom of speech.

                    "The fact that the Swiss authorities open such investigations is a
                    serious signal to Turks who live or come to Switzerland. It means
                    they have to keep their mouths shut," he told the NZZ am Sonntag
                    newspaper.

                    A Swiss foreign ministry communiqué on Thursday said that the
                    government had always "regretted and condemned the tragic
                    deportations and massacres of Armenians" in the final phase of the
                    Ottoman Empire.

                    The government also welcomed a suggestion from Ankara to create a
                    commission of Turkish and Armenian historians to study the issue.

                    The House of Representatives is the only federal institution that has
                    officially recognised the Armenian genocide.

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