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Jan 28 2015
Amal Clooney: First hearing of Armenian genocide case
Famous lawyer Amal Clooney will go before Europe's top human rights
court to argue against Dogu Perincek who is denying the 1915 Armenian
genocide.
Mr. Perincek from the Left-wing Turkish Workers' Party called the
Armenian genocide as an international lie and he was fined by a Swiss
court in 2005. Then the Turkish politician went to the European Court
of Human Rights and the court ruled in favour of Mr. Perincek. Now the
legal team, who Amal Clooney participates, hired by Armenia will
challenge the appeal. The first hearing has been scheduled for Jan 28.
Armenians argue that denying the Armenian genocide should be a crime,
resembling it with the Holocaust. They say judges from the court in
Strasbourg made a series of legal and factual errors when they
overturned Mr Perincek's original conviction. During the case, Turkey
submitted historical documents questioning the veracity of the
genocide.
Mrs Clooney will work alongside her head of chambers, Geoffrey
Robertson, QC who recently wrote a book with the title "An
Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers the Armenians?".Now Remembers
the Armenians?". Mr. Robertson argues in favour of Armenia in his book
stressing that the Armenian genocide is a historic fact and it can't
be denied.
Historians estimate up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman
Turks 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.
http://www.neurope.eu/article/amal-clooney-first-hearing-armenian-genocide-case
Jan 28 2015
Amal Clooney: First hearing of Armenian genocide case
Famous lawyer Amal Clooney will go before Europe's top human rights
court to argue against Dogu Perincek who is denying the 1915 Armenian
genocide.
Mr. Perincek from the Left-wing Turkish Workers' Party called the
Armenian genocide as an international lie and he was fined by a Swiss
court in 2005. Then the Turkish politician went to the European Court
of Human Rights and the court ruled in favour of Mr. Perincek. Now the
legal team, who Amal Clooney participates, hired by Armenia will
challenge the appeal. The first hearing has been scheduled for Jan 28.
Armenians argue that denying the Armenian genocide should be a crime,
resembling it with the Holocaust. They say judges from the court in
Strasbourg made a series of legal and factual errors when they
overturned Mr Perincek's original conviction. During the case, Turkey
submitted historical documents questioning the veracity of the
genocide.
Mrs Clooney will work alongside her head of chambers, Geoffrey
Robertson, QC who recently wrote a book with the title "An
Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers the Armenians?".Now Remembers
the Armenians?". Mr. Robertson argues in favour of Armenia in his book
stressing that the Armenian genocide is a historic fact and it can't
be denied.
Historians estimate up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman
Turks 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.
http://www.neurope.eu/article/amal-clooney-first-hearing-armenian-genocide-case