TURKISH MINISTER MAKES HARSH STATEMENT ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN SWITZERLAND
Vestnik Kavkaza
Jan 30 2012
Russia
Egemen Bagys, Turkish Minister for EU Affairs, made a harsh statement
in Switzerland, a state that had approved the bill on criminalization
of denial of the Armenian Genocide by the French Senate, TRT reports.
Bagys said that there was no genocide of Armenians in 1915 and said
that he was ready to be arrested for saying that.
The Turkish minister attended the World Economic Forum in Davos. He
later went to Zurich and watched a performance of Turkish singer
Sezen Aksu. He made the statement after the concert.
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