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  • ANKARA: Turkish Ultranationalist Party Leader Dogu Perincek To Meet

    TURKISH ULTRANATIONALIST PARTY LEADER TO MEET WITH ASSAD

    Cihan News Agency (CNA), Turkey
    March 1, 2015 Sunday

    Ä°STANBUL (CÄ°HAN)- The leader of Turkey's ultranationalist Land
    Party (VP), which was known as the Labor Party (Ä°P) until recently,
    departed for Syria on Sunday to meet with President Bashar al-Assad,
    the Dogan news agency has reported.

    Dogu Perincek spoke to the media at Ataturk Airport before leaving
    for Syria. Stating that Turkey needs the friendship and brotherhood
    of Syria, Perincek said, "Syria's resistance against a global attack,
    which supports Turkey's territorial integrity, is one of the most
    important matters in recent years. Our visit will boost the cooperation
    between Middle Eastern countries as well as Turkey's friendship with
    Syria, Iraq and Iran. We will return with good news from our meeting
    with Mr. Bashar al-Assad in terms of peace and ending terrorism in
    Turkey and near our borders."

    Perincek, who went to Syria accompanied by a committee, briefly met
    with former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Ä°stanbul's
    Ataturk Airport before boarding his flight. Ahmedinejad was in Turkey
    for a few days to attend events commemorating the anniversary of the
    death of former Turkish Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan.

    Among those accompanying Perincek on his visit to Syria were Birgul
    Ayman Guler, who recently resigned from the Republican People's Party
    (CHP), and Abdullatif Å~^ener, a founder and former member of the
    ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) as well as a former
    deputy prime minister.

    Perincek came into the spotlight after having been convicted by a Swiss
    court for calling claims of an Armenian genocide an "international
    lie" during a series of speeches he delivered in Switzerland in
    2007. Perincek brought the case to the European Court of Human Rights
    (ECtHR), which ruled in favor of the Turkish politician on Dec. 17,
    2013, saying that the VP leader had exercised his "right to free
    speech." In late January, the ECtHR began hearing an appeal filed by
    the Swiss government against Perincek.

    Perincek's original conviction centered on his denial of claims that
    1.5 million Armenians were killed in the final years of the Ottoman
    Empire in a systematic genocide campaign, a claim categorically denied
    by Turkey.

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