IN LAUSANNE, DOGU PERINCEK GOES ON TRAIL FOR DENYING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE CLAIMS
Hurriyet, Turkey
March 6 2007
A delegation of 160 people, included former President of Northern
Cyprus, Rauf Denktas, has gone to Switzerland to show support for
the head of Turkey’s Workers’ Party, Dogu Perincek, who is on trial
there for publicly denying Armenian allegations of genocide.
Perincek, who is being tried in Lausanne, was joined in court by a
large group of academicians, historians, retired military officials,
and politicians from Turkey, who left Istanbul on a specially chartered
Turkish Airlines flight for Geneva. Speaking prior to departure at
Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport, Denktas told reporters "Thousands of our
Armenian siblings live here under good conditions.
Workers come from Armenia to make a living here, and do so. So
friendship between Turkey and Armenia is necessary on both sides. But
friendship cannot be based on lies and slander."
The general leader of the Turkish Workers’ Party, Dogu Perincek is
on trial in Switzerland for calling Armenian allegations of genocide
in Turkey "an imperialist lie" during a 2005 demonstration in Lausanne.
Reports say Perincek left Turkey for his trial in Lausanne carrying
90 kilos worth of Russian and Armenian documents with him.