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Today's Zaman, Turkey
Jan 28 2015
Amal Clooney on legal team in 'Armenian genocide' case
Lawyer Amal Clooney went before Europe's top human rights court
Wednesday to argue against a man convicted of denying the 1915
'Armenian genocide.'
Clooney is representing Armenia as part of an appeal before the
Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights, which ruled in favor
of the man, DoÄ?u Perinçek, in December 2013.
Perinçek believes his right to free speech was violated when Swiss
courts convicted him of racism for denying the 'genocide' in 2005. He
described the 'genocide' as "an international lie."
Clooney said the "most important error" of the court's 2013 ruling in
favor of Perinçek was that "it cast doubt on the reality of the
Armenian genocide."
Historians estimate up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman
administration around the time of World War I, an event widely viewed
by genocide scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century.
Turkey, however, denies the deaths constituted genocide, saying the
toll has been inflated and that those killed were victims of civil war
and unrest.
The court said its decision would be made at a later date.
http://www.todayszaman.com/national_amal-clooney-on-legal-team-in-armenian-genocide-case_371094.html
Jan 28 2015
Amal Clooney on legal team in 'Armenian genocide' case
Lawyer Amal Clooney went before Europe's top human rights court
Wednesday to argue against a man convicted of denying the 1915
'Armenian genocide.'
Clooney is representing Armenia as part of an appeal before the
Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights, which ruled in favor
of the man, DoÄ?u Perinçek, in December 2013.
Perinçek believes his right to free speech was violated when Swiss
courts convicted him of racism for denying the 'genocide' in 2005. He
described the 'genocide' as "an international lie."
Clooney said the "most important error" of the court's 2013 ruling in
favor of Perinçek was that "it cast doubt on the reality of the
Armenian genocide."
Historians estimate up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman
administration around the time of World War I, an event widely viewed
by genocide scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century.
Turkey, however, denies the deaths constituted genocide, saying the
toll has been inflated and that those killed were victims of civil war
and unrest.
The court said its decision would be made at a later date.
http://www.todayszaman.com/national_amal-clooney-on-legal-team-in-armenian-genocide-case_371094.html