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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Reuters AlertNet - Turkish politician in Swiss dock on genocide denial

"Turkish politician in Swiss dock on genocide denial

GENEVA, March 6 (Reuters) - A Turkish politician on Tuesday went on trial in Switzerland for denying that mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 amounted to genocide.

Dogu Perincek, head of the leftist-nationalist Turkish Workers' Party, called the Armenian genocide "an international lie" during a speech in the Swiss city of Lausanne in July 2005."

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