Turk goes on trial in Switzerland for denying Armenian genocide

GENEVA -- A Turkish politician went on trial Tuesday in Switzerland for denying that the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War I amounted to genocide. Dogu Perincek, head of the Turkish Workers' Party, called the Armenian genocide"an international lie" during a speech in the Swiss city of Lausanne in July 2005. The state prosecutor has called for a six month prison term for violating a 1995 Swiss law that bans denying, belittling or justifying any genocide. The maximum penalty is three years. Perincek told the Lausanne criminal court that there had been no genocide against Armenians, but there had been"reciprocal massacres," according to Swiss Radio.

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