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ANKARA CONDEMNS SWISS COURT FOR GENOCIDE RULING
Kathimerini, Greece
March 12 2007
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has condemned the decision of a Swiss
court to impose a suspended jail sentence and a fine on a Turkish
citizen for denying that mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks
in 1915 amounted to genocide. In the first such conviction under
Swiss law, the court on Friday sentenced Dogu Perincek, head of the
leftist-nationalist Turkish Workers' Party, to a 90-day suspended jail
term. "The court case was inappropriate, groundless and controversial
in every sense... The verdict cannot be accepted by the Turkish
people," Turkey's Foreign Ministry said late on Friday.
Kathimerini, Greece
March 12 2007
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has condemned the decision of a Swiss
court to impose a suspended jail sentence and a fine on a Turkish
citizen for denying that mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks
in 1915 amounted to genocide. In the first such conviction under
Swiss law, the court on Friday sentenced Dogu Perincek, head of the
leftist-nationalist Turkish Workers' Party, to a 90-day suspended jail
term. "The court case was inappropriate, groundless and controversial
in every sense... The verdict cannot be accepted by the Turkish
people," Turkey's Foreign Ministry said late on Friday.