Doğu Perinçek
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Doğu Perinçek, 24 July 2005
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17 June 1942 Gaziantep, Turkey |
| Nationality | Turkey |
| Political party | Patriotic Party |
| Spouse(s) | Şule Perinçek |
| Children | Can Perinçek Mehmet Bora Perinçek Kiraz Perinçek Zeynep Perinçek |
Doğu Perinçek (born June 17, 1942) is a Turkish politician and lawyer who has been chairman of the left-wing nationalist Patriotic Party (Turkish: Vatan Partisi) since 2015.
In 2007, a ruling by a Swiss court made him the first person to receive a criminal conviction for denial of the Armenian genocide. He is a known Genocide denier. The case was ultimately appealed to the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, which in a 15 October 2015 judgment did not dispute the fact of the Armenian genocide but ruled in favour of Perinçek on grounds of free speech.
In August 2013 he was sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment as part of Turkey's Ergenekon trials, but he was released in 2014.
Doğu Perinçek was born at Gaziantep in 1942 to Sadık Perinçek of Apçağa, Kemaliye, and Lebibe Olcaytu of Balaban, Darende. Sadık Perinçek was the Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme Court and a parliamentary deputy of the Justice Party (AP), the predecessor of the True Path Party (DYP). Perinçek attended Ankara Sarar primary school, an Atatürk Lycee, and Bahçelievler Deneme high school. He interrupted his university education to study German at the Goethe Institute in Germany, going on to finish Ankara University's Law faculty, and working as an assistant lecturer in public law. He then completed a doctorate at the Otto-Suhr-Institut in Germany.
Prior to his detention as part of the Ergenekon case, Perinçek resided in Gayrettepe, Istanbul with his wife Şule Perinçek. They have two daughters, Zeynep and Kiraz, and two sons, Can and Mehmet Bora.
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