Armenian Genocide denial

Years ago, Turkish politician Do?u Perinçek gave a number of conferences in Switzerland on the topic: ?Genocide in an imperialist lie.?

As a result, a Lausanne Police Court tried and found him guilty of racial discrimination on March 9, 2007, sentencing him to 120 days in prison before converting his prison term to a fine and postponing it.

The Talat Pa?a Committee, a Turkish nationalist organization aiming to counter recognition of the 1915 events as the "Armenian genocide," has been refused entry to Athens, where it had gone to issue a statement in protest at a recently approved Greek bill.

Amal Ramzi Clooney, a prominent British-Lebanese lawyer, will be one of the attorneys representing Armenia next month at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in a key case regarding the deaths of Ottoman Armenians a hundred years ago, according to an Armenian news website.

Two hundred Turkish academics, writers and civil society activists issue a statement calling on the Turkish people and the international organizations to take a strong position in defense of Kobane

Armenia on Wednesday praised Greece for approving a law banning the denial of genocide as Yerevan calls for the massacre of Armenians during World War I in present-day Turkey to be internationally recognised as genocide.