{"id":159291,"date":"2012-02-06T15:55:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T11:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=159291"},"modified":"2012-02-06T18:30:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T14:30:49","slug":"swiss-prosecutor-sues-turkeys-eu-minister-over-armenian-genocide-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/02\/06\/swiss-prosecutor-sues-turkeys-eu-minister-over-armenian-genocide-denial.html","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Investigate Turkey&#8217;s EU Minister for Denying Armenian Genocide (updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Swiss prosecutor has launched a probe into Turkish EU Minister Egemen Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f (pictured) for saying &#8220;the Armenian genocide doesn&#8217;t exist,&#8221; <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/Default.aspx?PageID=238&amp;NID=13102\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">H\u00fcrriyet<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no Armenian Genocide. Let them arrest me,&#8221; Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2012\/01\/30\/let-them-come-and-arrest-me-turkish-minister-denies-armenian-genocide-in-switzerland.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">said last week<\/span><\/a><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">,<\/span><\/strong><\/span> following a question from a French reporter on the 1915 killings.<\/p>\n<p>Zurich public prosecutor Christine Braunschweig confirmed the probe and told Do\u011fan news agency that they were looking into whether or not Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f had said the words.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will look into Minister Egemen Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f&#8217; immunity,&#8221; Braunschweig further said. &#8220;If there is anything illegal and if he does not have the diplomatic immunity, then we will file the lawsuit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f has refused to speak on the matter until the initial probe ends, the H\u00fcrriyet reported.<\/p>\n<p><em>Updated 6:26 pm: Original story reported that the Swiss prosecutor had already filed the lawsuit.<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Swiss prosecutor has launched a probe into Turkish EU Minister Egemen Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f for saying &#8220;the Armenian genocide<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10372,37823,13334,10790,16861,10222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}