The relations between Turkey and Switzerland are tense again, reported AP/Istanbul. The Zurich Ministry of Justice investigates a case on suspicion of racism of Turkish historian Yusuf Galagoghlu. In his report made in Winterthur Swiss city May 2, 2004 Professor of philological sciences Yusuf Galagoghlu denied the Armenian Genocide in 1915. The Prosecutor’s Office of Winterthur started investigation of the Galagoghlu case on suspicion of racism. The case is now investigated in Zurich. Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul criticized the actions of the Swiss authorities. The Turkish FM stated Switzerland has broken European basic rights. «Only the most totalitarian country could have acted that way,» he noted. Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink has also expressed himself on the occasion. «I condemn that decision,» he noted. The Turkish FM also noted that the Swiss authorities are making a mistake. It should be noted that the relations between the two states are complicated due to Switzerland having acknowledged the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915.
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