Turkey protests Swiss probe against minister

Fox News Monday 6th February, 2012

Turkey has summoned the Swiss ambassador to protest his country's probe of a Turkish official alleged to have denied Armenians endured a genocide in the 1900s. Swiss laws criminalize denying that the killings of some 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 was genocide. Turkey insists there was no systematic campaign against Armenians. Tur...

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