Dogu Perinçek

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Dogu Perinçek, July 24, 2005

Doğu Perinçek (born June 17, 1942 in Gaziantep ) is a Turkish politician and party leader of the left-wing nationalist Vatan Partisi (Fatherland Party). On August 5, 2013, he was sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment and an additional 30 years in prison on charges of being a “leader of a terrorist organization”. He was released from prison on March 10, 2014.

Career

Perinçek's father Sadık Perinçek was a member of the Democratic Party of Erzincan Province in the 1950s . Doğu Perinçek studied law at the University of Ankara , did his doctorate and then worked there as a research assistant. He was co-founder and chairman of the “Revolutionary Workers and Peasants Party of Turkey” (TİİKP), from which the “Workers and Peasants Party of Turkey” (TİKP) split off in 1978 under his leadership.

Dogu Perinçek was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment after the military seizure of power on March 12, 1971 , but was given an amnesty after two and a half years. Even after the military coup of September 12, 1980 , he was sentenced to a long prison term. In 1985 he was released from prison. In 1991 he was allowed to become politically active again, but his "socialist party" was banned. It was then reorganized as the “Workers' Party”, İP ( İşçi Partisi ) and has been led by Perinçek since it was founded. At the beginning of the 1990s, he caused a sensation when he met the PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan . Towards the end of the decade, he turned increasingly to nationalist positions. He is against Turkey's accession to the EU . In foreign policy, he cooperated with the Eurasian movement of Alexander Dugin in Russia . Perinçek was arrested on March 21, 2008 in connection with the investigation into the alleged Ergenekon organization . In 2016 it was proven that the organization does not exist.

On August 5, 2013, Perinçek was sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment and an additional 30 years in prison on charges of being a "leader of a terrorist organization". His son Mehmet Perinçek, a historian, received six years imprisonment in the same trial. Doğu Perinçek was released from the Silivri detention center on March 10, 2014, along with other prisoners . This was made possible by a Turkish law that reduced the maximum imprisonment before a final judgment from ten to five years.

Perinçek's stance on the Armenian genocide

Dogu Perinçek has recently distinguished himself by denying the Armenian genocide . As a result, the Lausanne District Court examined whether Perinçek's allegations about the events of the First World War had violated Swiss anti-racism penalties . At a rally in Lausanne on July 24, 2005, Perinçek declared that the genocide of the Armenians was an international lie. He was sentenced to a fine on March 9, 2007. He is the first person in Switzerland to be held accountable for denying the Armenian genocide. Perinçek spoke of a racist and imperialist verdict and sees himself as a victim in line with Galileo , Robespierre and Marx , who were also condemned for their ideas. Incidentally, he would not change his position even if an independent commission of experts refuted him. Perinçek compared the trial to a trial by the Spanish Inquisition and announced that he would appeal. On June 19, the Cantonal Court of Vaud rejected Perinçek's appeal as completely unfounded and confirmed the judgment of the lower court, and the Swiss Federal Court of Justice also confirmed the judgment in December of the same year. Perinçek appealed against this decision to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which ruled in 2013 that Switzerland had thereby violated the right to freedom of expression guaranteed in Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights . Switzerland then asked the Grand Chamber of the ECHR to reassess the case. The ECtHR decided in June 2014 that it would handle the case and upheld the 2013 ruling in October 2015. In 2016, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court returned the case to the cantonal court to settle the acquittal and compensation.

family

Doğu Perinçek is married and has four children. His wife Şule Perinçek was temporarily the chairman of his party's women's organization.

Selected bibliography

  • Türkiye'de Siyasi Partilerin İç Düzeni ve Yasaklanması Rejimi, 1968 (The internal order of political parties in Turkey and the policy of prohibition)
  • Faşizm Halkın Mücadelesini Durduramaz - Sıkıyönetim Mahkemeleri'ndeki Konuşma ve Dilekçeler, 1975 (Fascism cannot stop the struggle of the people! - Speeches and petitions before the special courts of the exceptional administration)
  • Bozkurt Efsaneleri ve Gerçek, 1976 (The legends of the gray wolves and reality)
  • Türkiye Devriminin Yolu, 1979 (The road to revolution in Turkey)
  • Türk Sorunu, 1993 (The Turkish Question)
  • Orta Asya Uygarlığı, 2005 (The Civilization of Central Asia)
  • Ermeni Sorununda Strateji ve Siyaset, 2006 (Strategy and Politics on the Armenian Question)

Article in German translation

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  1. ↑ Bedri Baykam. 68'li yıllar: eylemciler , Ankara 1997, p. 505
  2. ↑ Martin Riexinger: " Feindbild Islamisierung " Die Tageszeitung, July 28, 2008
  3. ↑ 17 sentenced to life in Turkey's Ergenekon coup plot trial, including ex-military chief ; Hurriyet Daily News, Aug 5, 2013
  4. ↑ BBC Türkçe , Ergenekon davası: Doğu Perinçek de tahliye edildi , March 10, 2014.
  5. ↑ Christiane Schlötzer: Dogu Perinçek is free and politically active again. In: Tages-Anzeiger of March 14, 2014, p. 5.
  6. ↑ " Turkish politicians Perincek denies genocide continues ," Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 6th of 2007.
  7. ↑ “ First conviction for denying the Armenian genocide ”, Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 9, 2007.
  8. ↑ “ Perinçek provokes Switzerland again ”, 20 minutes , March 10, 2007.
  9. ↑ “ Dogu Perinçek convicted of genocide denial ”, Swissinfo , March 9, 2007.
  10. ↑ Anetta Bundi: " Genocide-Denier: Punishment confirmed ( Memento of October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )", tagesanzeiger.ch , June 20, 2007.
  11. ↑ Conviction of genocide denier Perincek confirmed , swissinfo , December 19, 2007, accessed June 18, 2012
  12. ↑ Switzerland violated the right to freedom of expression . 20 minutes online, December 17, 2013
  13. ↑ Genocide verdict is being reviewed. In: Tages-Anzeiger .ch / Newsnet from June 3, 2014
  14. ↑ ECHR: Denial of the Armenian genocide counts as freedom of expression. In: Zeit Online. October 15, 2015, accessed October 18, 2015 .
  15. ^ Reluctant acquittal , in: NZZ , 10 September 2016, p. 33
personal data
SURNAME Perinçek, Dogu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Gaziantep