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    TURKEY FEELS HURT BY SWITZERLAND

    Pan Armenian News
    03.05.2005 04:29

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The relations between Turkey and Switzerland are
    tense again, reported AP/Istanbul. The Zurich Ministry of Justice
    investigates a case on suspicion of racism of Turkish historian
    Yusuf Galagoghlu. In his report made in Winterthur Swiss city
    May 2, 2004 Professor of philological sciences Yusuf Galagoghlu
    denied the Armenian Genocide in 1915. The Prosecutor's Office
    of Winterthur started investigation of the Galagoghlu case on
    suspicion of racism. The case is now investigated in Zurich. Turkish
    Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul criticized the actions of the Swiss
    authorities. The Turkish FM stated Switzerland has broken European
    basic rights. «Only the most totalitarian country could have acted
    that way,» he noted. Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink has
    also expressed himself on the occasion. «I condemn that decision,»
    he noted. The Turkish FM also noted that the Swiss authorities are
    making a mistake. It should be noted that the relations between the
    two states are complicated due to Switzerland having acknowledged
    the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915.

    --Boundary_(ID_+7JpTFQITlQelXEMmPWb8w)--
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