Federal Tribunal of Switzerland dismisses decision against Perincek 

ArmInfo. Federal Tribunal of Switzerland has dismissed the decision against Dogu Perincek, the leader of Turkey's Labour Party, over his "racists statements," according to Tbibune de Geneve. The copies of the decision have been sent to Perincek.

In 2007, the Swiss court had convicted Dogu Perincek under Article 216 of the Criminal Code for denying the Armenian Genocide, subjecting him to financial and criminal liability. On October 15 2015, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights delivered a judgment on the case of Perincek v.  Switzerland. In the judgment "the European Court of Human Rights held, by a majority, that there had been: a violation of Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights. The case concerned the criminal conviction of a Turkish politician for publicly expressing the view, in Switzerland, that the mass deportations and massacres suffered by the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 and the following years had not amounted to genocide.

This is already the second precedent over the Armenian Genocide issue within the recent days. Foreign Minister of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu has said lately the German deputies are provided with access to Incirlik Air Base, as Berlin has implemented all the necessary terms to get access to the base by declaring Bundestag's resolution on the Armenian Genocide as "legally not-binding."

Earlier, Ankara demanded Berlin to distance itself from the above resolution; otherwise the German lawmakers were denied access to the Incirlik airbase in Turkey. Berlin refused to do it, but said that the resolution is "legally not-binding".