28 OCAK AİHM PERİNÇEK - İSVİÇRE DURUŞMASININ IŞIĞINDA TÜRK-ERMENİ SORUNU

The Perinçek v. Switzerland Case, to which Turkey, Armenia and France also involved as third parties, was finalized on 15 October 2015 with the decision of Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights that ruled in favor of Perinçek. The Grand Chamber judged that speaking rejecting the characterization of the 1915 events as genocide does not constitute hate crime or racial discrimination. Consequently, the ECtHR Grand Chamber ruled that Perinçek’s freedom of expression cannot be restricted under these circumstances. As such, the judgement of the ECtHR Grand Chamber has significant implications for TurkishArmenian contorversy which have been shaped by genocide allegations. Moreover, an in-depth analysis of the stages of the case at hand plays an essential role for the understanding of the disagreement between Turkey and Armenia and the form it has taken today. On 3 February 2015, AVİM organized a meeting to asses the hearing which took place on 28 January 2015. The speakers at the meeting included Prof. Dr. Sadi Çaycı (Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law at Başkent University), Ambassador (R)Alev Kılıç (President of AVİM) and the researcher Şükrü Serve Aya.