Doğu Perinçek reiterated at a press conference in Zürich that “no court had ever considered the events of 1915 in Armenia as acts of genocide”.

With the support of his government, Doğu Perinçek addressed the media at the Turkish consulate in Zurich with provocative rhetoric, accusing the United States of having some responsibility for terrorist attacks in Europe and demanding a revision of the penal code Swiss.

According to a report by the Swiss newspaper NZZ, Perinçek – the president of the Turkish Patriotic Party – told the press conference Tuesday at the consulate that the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, Brussels, Berlin and Turkey were “all directed from the same place : United States”.

He added that this is due to the fact that the United States wanted to divide Turkey and reject a strong Europe.

Perinçek has also expressed his support for a new initiative by Swiss parliamentarian Yves Nidegger requesting an amendment to the Swiss penal code that would eliminate the reference to genocide or at least require it to be “verified by a competent court”.

The proposal for a criminal amendment follows a decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) of 2015 which reversed a decision of the Swiss Federal Court that Perinçek had violated Swiss legislation by classifying genocide Armenian “international lie”.

Perinçek was formally acquitted by the European Court in September of the accusations of racism, which were originally introduced by a court in Lausanne in 2005. At three separate public events in Switzerland, Perinçek had argued that the death of 800,000 To 1 800 000 Armenians in the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1918 did not constitute genocide.

The Swiss penal code currently stipulates that those who “deny, minimize or attempt to justify genocide or other crimes against humanity” will be punished by imprisonment or a fine.