CHAIRMAN ON RETURN TO COUNTRY

ddp news agency
20 Mar 06

Berlin: After a demonstration by Turkish nationalists in Berlin [on
Saturday 18 March], Home Affairs Senator Ehrhart Koerting (Social
Democratic Party of Germany) has got his people to check the legal
consequences for Dogu Perincek, chairman of the Turkish Workers’
Party. On the sidelines of the demonstration, the politician denied
the genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915, Koerting
told the Home Affairs Committee on Monday [20 March]. So that he
cannot give any “hate speeches” any more, the aliens authority is
now checking as a precaution whether Perincek could be expelled from
Germany if he enters the country again.

According to Koerting, 1,350 Turkish nationalists demonstrated in
Berlin on Saturday. They demanded, among other things, the rescission
of a Bundestag resolution of mid-2005, which recalls the “almost
complete eradication of the Armenians in Anatolia”. According to the
home affairs senator, only very few of the demonstrators came from
Berlin. [passage omitted]