Doğu Perinçek
Dogu Perinçek ( born June 17, 1942 in Gaziantep ) is a Turkish politician and party leader of ISCI Partisi ( Workers' Party ). On August 5, 2013, was to be under the charge of " leader of a terrorist organization", was sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment and an additional 30 years in prison.
Career
Perinçeks father Sadık Perinçek was in the 1950 Democrat MP for the Parti province of Erzincan. Dogu Perinçek studied law at the University of Ankara, doctorate and worked as a research scientist. He was co-founder and chairman of the " Revolutionary Workers and Peasants Party of Turkey " ( TİİKP ) of the separating off the " Workers' and Peasants Party of Turkey " ( TİKP ) under his leadership in 1978.
Dogu Perinçek was sentenced after the seizure of power by the military on 12 March 1971 20 years in prison but was pardoned after two and a half years. Even after the military coup of 12 September 1980, he was sentenced to a long prison term. In 1985 he was released from prison. In 1991 he was allowed to be politically active, but was banned his " socialist party ". It was formed on newly as " workers' party ", IP ( ISCI Partisi ) and is managed since its inception by Perinçek. At the beginning of the 1990s he attracted by a meeting with the PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan stir. Towards the end of the decade, he turned increasingly nationalist positions. So he enters oppose EU membership for Turkey. In foreign policy, he cooperates with the Eurasian movement of Alexandr Dugin in Russia. In connection with the investigation into the alleged nationalist terrorist organization Ergenekon Perinçek was arrested on 21 March 2008 and has since remained in detention.
On August 5, 2013 Perinçek was to be under the charge of " leader of a terrorist organization", was sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment plus 30 years in prison. His son Mehmet Perinçek, a historian, received six years in prison in the same process. Dogu Perinçek was released on March 10, 2014 along with other prisoners from the prison in Silivri.
Perinçeks stance on the Armenian Genocide
Dogu Perinçek teamed up lately by the denial of the Armenian genocide forth. As a result, the district court considered Lausanne whether Perinçek has failed with his assertions about the events during the First World War against the Swiss anti-racism criminal provision. Perincek had declared on 24 July 2005, in a rally in Lausanne, the Armenian genocide is an imperialist lie. He was sentenced on 9 March 2007 to pay a fine. He is the first person in Switzerland, which is drawn for his denial of the Armenian genocide to justice. Perinçek spoke of a racist and imperialist ruling and see themselves as victims in line with Galileo, Robespierre and Marx, who had also been sentenced for their ideas. In addition, he would also not change its position if an independent commission of experts refute him. Perinçek compared the trial with a process of the Spanish Inquisition and announced to insert revision. On 19 June, the Vaud Cantonal Court of Appeals pointed Perinçeks as totally unfounded and confirmed the judgment of the lower court, also called Swiss Federal Court confirmed in December of the same year the verdict. Perinçek exclaimed against this decision to the European Court of Human Rights, which ruled in 2013 that Switzerland had thus violated the right guaranteed in Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights right to freedom of expression. Switzerland has three months in which to draw the judgment of the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR.
Family
Dogu Perinçek is married and father of four children. His wife Şule Perinçek was temporarily chairman of the women's organization of his party.
Selected Bibliography
- Türkiye'de Siyasi Parti activist iC düzeni ve Yasaklanması Rejimi, 1968 ( The internal organization of political parties in Turkey and the prohibition policy)
- Faşizm Halkin Mücadelesini Durduramaz - Sıkıyönetim Mahkemeleri'ndeki Konuşma ve Dilekçeler, 1975 ( Fascism can not stop the people's struggle - speeches and petitions before the special courts of exception management )
- Bozkurt Efsaneleri ve Gerçek, 1976 ( The legends of gray wolves and the reality)
- Türk sorunu, 1993 ( The Turkish question )
- Orta Asya Uygarlığı, 2005 ( Civilization of Central Asia )
- Ermeni Sorununda Strateji ve Siyaset, 2006 ( strategy and policy in the Armenian question )