SWISS DISTRICT COURT CONVICTED THREE CITIZENS OF TURKEY OF DENYING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

ArmInfo
2008-10-22 11:49:00

ArmInfo. A Swiss district court of Winterthur town has found three
Turkish defendants guilty of denying the Armenian holocaust during
the Ottoman Empire 90 years ago, Swiss info reports.

According to the source, they were ordered to pay up to $5,630 during
3 years. The defence lawyer said he would appeal the verdict, although
it is milder than the sentence demanded by the prosecutor.

The source recalls that last year the leader of Turkish Workers’ Party,
Dogu Perincek was found guilty on a similar case. During a visit to
western Switzerland he publicly denied that the killing of hundreds
of thousands of ethnic Armenians amounted to genocide. ‘The case
caused diplomatic tensions between Switzerland and Turkey. However,
both countries recently decided to forge closer ties following a
visit by the Turkish foreign minister to Switzerland’, the source says.