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  • ANKARA: Pol to appeal to EU court against Swiss "genocide" ruling

    Anatolia News Agency, Turkey
    Dec 22 2007


    Turkish politician to appeal to European court against Swiss
    "genocide" ruling


    Istanbul, 22 December: Dogu Perincek, leader of Workers' Party (IP),
    said he would apply to European Court of Justice regarding the
    ratification of the verdicts of Lausanne Court of First Instance and
    Regional Court of Appeal by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland
    on Saturday [22 December].

    Holding a press conference at his party's HQs in Istanbul, Perincek
    said the Swiss FSC had seriously violated freedom of thought and
    scientific freedom.

    Perincek said the verdict of FSC rested on the political decisions of
    EU acknowledging the "Armenian genocide lie".

    "This is a politically-motivated verdict. The Swiss administration
    and Swiss judges are becoming a tool for US plot of separating Turkey
    under the Greater Middle East Project. This is a shame for
    Switzerland," noted Perincek.

    Perincek, who indicated they would not surrender to this decision,
    wowed to mobilize the Turkish citizens living in Europe to stand to
    this verdict.

    Perincek said he would apply to the ECJ about the verdict.

    "I will put a 90kg pile of Armenian documents - proving that the
    allegations of an Armenian genocide is an international lie - on the
    bench of the ECJ," said Perincek.

    IP leader Perincek was prosecuted for breaching the Swiss law on
    "denying" Armenian allegations of genocide because of the remarks he
    made during a conference in the Winterthur city of Switzerland in
    2005, saying that Armenian allegations of genocide were an
    "imperialist lie".
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