Genocide-lawsuit: A Turk convicted of Genocide denial
NRC Handelsblad (Dutch daily newspaper)
10 March 2007
Geneva 10 March. A Swiss court convicted a Turkish politician to a suspended
penalty of 90 days and ordered him to pay a fine of 3000 Swiss Franc,
because he denied the Turkish Genocide of the Armenians – which is a crime
in Switzerland. It is the first time that in Switzerland someone has been
punished for that offence. The convicted person is Dogu Perincek, leader of
the left-nationalist Turkish Workers’ Party, who in a speech in 2005 in
Lausanne called the genocide "an international lie". The judge called
Perincek an "arrogant instigator" an "a racist". The maximum he could have
been sentenced to was 3 years imprisonment (Reuters).
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