Turkish Minister Thumbs Nose at Swiss Authorities
By Ayla Albayrak
Turkey’s EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bagis had a defiant message on Tuesday for a Swiss prosecutor investigating him over allegations of denying the Armenian genocide.
Mr. Bagis is standing by his comments in Davos last month, and even repeated them.
On the final day of the World Economic Forum, debate was raging over the French Senate’s approval of a bill which makes it a crime to deny that the mass slaughter of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire’s dying days was genocide.
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