Doğu Perinçek
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Doğu Perinçek (born June 17, 1942 in Gaziantep) is a Turkish politician of Turkey's left-wing, leader of Turkey's Workers' Party (Turkish: İşçi Partisi), former chairman of the Revolutionary Workers and Peasants Party of Turkey.
[edit] Criminal Cases
Perinçek is notable as being the first person to be convicted by a court of law for the denial of the Armenian Genocide. On 9 March 2007, he was found guilty by a Swiss district court of conscious violation of Swiss laws against genocide denial with a racist motivation and was fined CHF 12,000. The case was a result of Perinçek's description of the Armenian genocide as an "imperialist lie" at a demonstration in Lausanne on 25 July 2005. The verdict was confirmed by the Vaud cantonal appeal court on 19 June, and by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland on 12 December 2007.[1] Perinçek announced he will take recourse to the European Court of Human Rights.
On 21 March 2008, Perinçek was detained as part of a Turkish investigation into a Turkish nationalist underground organization named Ergenekon that was allegedly plotting the assassination of public figures in Turkey including Orhan Pamuk. This followed the arrest and detention of 39 suspects in January 2008 during raids targeting Ergenekon. [2]
[edit] References
- ^ Decision no. 6B_398/2007 (French)
- ^ Report in Today's Zaman, 21-03-2008 Selçuk, Perinçek and Alemdaroğlu in custody over Ergenekon
- "Turkish politician fined over genocide denial", Swissinfo with agencies, March 9, 2007.
- Tages-Anzeiger with AP, SDA, 19 December 2007 [1]
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| Preceded by newly founded |
Leader of the Workers' Party (İP) Jul 10, 1992–present |
Succeeded by incumbent |
