Dogu Perincek, leader of the Turkish Workers’ Party, failed last week to repeat in Greece the denialist show he orchestrated in Switzerland 10 years ago. Along with members of his blasphemous Talat Pasha Committee, Perincek had planned to travel to Athens to challenge the recent Greek law banning denial of the Armenian Genocide. He dreamed of becoming ‘a hero’ by filing a lawsuit against Greece in the European Court of Human Rights after his anticipated arrest for violating that law.
After the terrorist attack on the cartoonists from the periodic “Chalie Hebdo” in Paris, and after the shooting of a French policeman (who was also Muslim) and the other coordinated attacks in Paris this week, it becomes important to reflect about the importance of the preservation of democracy and the freedom of speech.
