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Tuesday, September 20, 2005

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Third Swiss charge against Perinçek for denying `genocide’

ANK – TDN with AP

Authorities have brought a third charge against a Turkish
politician for a new incident in which he is accused of breaking
Switzerland’s racial discrimination laws by denying Armenian genocide
allegations.

Doðu Perinçek, the leader of Turkey’s Workers’ Party (IP), made the
remarks on Sunday in a speech in central Switzerland’s Bern canton,
police said in a statement. He has already been charged by Swiss
authorities for two similar incidents.

`Based on the fact that during the course of his address Doðu
Perinçek denied the Armenian genocide and expressed prejudices
against the Western world, the Bern canton police have filed a
complaint based on suspicion of racial discrimination,’ said the
police statement.