SWISS COURT TRIALS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DENIER

ArmRadio.am
07.03.2007 10:32

A Turkish nationalist leader has gone on trial in Switzerland for
denying that the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey in 1915 amounted
to genocide.

Dogu Perincek, 65, is accused under Swiss law of racial discrimination.

The Swiss parliament, along with more than a dozen countries,
recognizes the killings as genocide.

The prosecutor in the city of Lausanne called for a six-month jail
sentence for genocide denial.

Dogu Perincek, head of the Turkish Workers’ Party, made the statements
in a public speech in Lausanne in 2005.

"I have not denied genocide because there was no genocide," he said
in court on Tuesday.