TURKEY FEELS HURT BY SWITZERLAND
Pan Armenian News
03.05.2005 04:29
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The relations between Turkey and Switzerland are
tense again, reported AP/Istanbul. The Zurich Ministry of Justice
investigates a case on suspicion of racism of Turkish historian
Yusuf Galagoghlu. In his report made in Winterthur Swiss city
May 2, 2004 Professor of philological sciences Yusuf Galagoghlu
denied the Armenian Genocide in 1915. The Prosecutor’s Office
of Winterthur started investigation of the Galagoghlu case on
suspicion of racism. The case is now investigated in Zurich. Turkish
Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul criticized the actions of the Swiss
authorities. The Turkish FM stated Switzerland has broken European
basic rights. «Only the most totalitarian country could have acted
that way,» he noted. Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink has
also expressed himself on the occasion. «I condemn that decision,»
he noted. The Turkish FM also noted that the Swiss authorities are
making a mistake. It should be noted that the relations between the
two states are complicated due to Switzerland having acknowledged
the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915.
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