Court Clears Turks Who Disputed Genocide
After an unprecedented trial, a Swiss court cleared prominent Turkish organizations of charges that they violated racial discrimination laws by disputing the World War I-era genocide of Armenians.
A Swiss-Armenian association filed a criminal complaint in 1997, objecting to a letter by Turkish associations that said the “analogy between the [Nazi] Holocaust and the displacement of the Armenian population has no basis.”
Court President Lienhard Ochsner dismissed the case for lack of subjective evidence and said there was no sign that the Turks knowingly breached the anti-racism law.
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