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    Middle East Times, Egypt
    Aug 1 2005

    Regional Roundups

    Turkish politician calls Swiss law 'medieval'

    BERN - A Turkish politician under investigation in Switzerland for
    saying that massacres of Armenians during World War I did not amount
    to genocide, said that Swiss anti-racism laws were comparable to
    the "medieval Inquisition" in a newspaper interview published on
    July 31. The law threatens to damage relations between Switzerland
    and Turkey and should be done away with, Dogu Perincek, the leader of
    the small leftist Turkish Workers Party, told the Swiss-German paper
    SonntagsBlick. Perincek was questioned by police last weekend in the
    Swiss town of Winterthur after allegedly saying that the Armenian
    genocide was "an international lie", a remark deemed racist under
    Swiss law.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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