Turk guilty over genocide remarks (CNN)

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A Swiss court has convicted a Turkish politician of racial discrimination for denying that mass killings of Armenians in Turkey in 1915 amounted to genocide.

Nationalist leader Dogu Perincek, 65, was on trial for remarks he made in a public speech in Lausanne in 2005.

He was given a suspended sentence and fined $2,450 (£1,270).

The Swiss parliament, along with more than a dozen countries, has labelled the killings as genocide. Turkey firmly rejects the genocide allegation.
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"I have not denied genocide because there was no genocide," he told the court earlier this week.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6434041.stm

[bdamomma]

1. What a liar!!!

ask my Armenian ancestors if there was no genocide, it was documented to be true.

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2. No, he wasn't.

"He was given a suspended sentence and fined $2,450 (£1,270)."

In fact, he was found not guilty and set free with an apology from the judge.

[bdamomma]

3. here are the facts

http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/Genocide/armenian_genocide.htm