Swiss court

An unpublished collection of letters, manuscripts and drawings by Franz Kafka are now available online via the Israel National Library, which recovered the documents after years of legal wrangling.

Some 120 drawings and more than 200 letters to his friend Max Brod are among the archives now available for public viewing, the project's curator Stefan Litte told AFP.

The European Court of Human Rights has considered inadmissible the complaint of Shpend Shala, a Kosovo Albanian found guilty of murder in a blood feud, who claimed his right to a fair trial was not duly respected when a Swiss court jailed him for 18 years in 2010.

The Roman sarcophagus of Hercules, which was ruled to return to Turkey by a Swiss court in 2015, will return to its home in Turkey in September. 

A Roman-era sarcophagus of Hercules is currently on display in Geneva, Switzerland, but will return to its home in the Mediterranean province of Antalya following a Swiss court ruling in 2015. 

Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Nabi Avcı, at an opening ceremony in Geneva, said the return of the Hercules sarcophagus is a new phase in Turkey's long-time international struggle.

A Swiss court found Donatello Poggi, a local politician in the canton of Ticino, guilty of racial discrimination because he wrote that the 1995 genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica was a lie, media reported.

Welcoming a ruling by the top European court of human rights, which said Switzerland had violated a Turkish politician?s right to freedom of speech by convicting him for denying the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 amounted to genocide, Turkey has called the ruling ?an important turning point, as it provides a reply to the exploitation of history and law for political motives.?

Russian potash tycoon Dmitry Rybolovlev won a Swiss court ruling on Thursday with a judgment that slashes a previous divorce award granted to his ex-wife from US$4.5 billion to just more than US$600 million.

Turkey and Switzerland have never been best pals in the years preceding the 2000s. During the Justice and Development Party?s (AKP) rule, the relationship started having an inconsistent course with ups and downs. The Swiss parliament?s decision in 2003 to recognize the World War I Armenian tragedy as genocide despite government opposition was not appreciated by Turkey.

Years ago, Turkish politician Do?u Perinçek gave a number of conferences in Switzerland on the topic: ?Genocide in an imperialist lie.?

As a result, a Lausanne Police Court tried and found him guilty of racial discrimination on March 9, 2007, sentencing him to 120 days in prison before converting his prison term to a fine and postponing it.

The Talat Pa?a Committee, a Turkish nationalist organization aiming to counter recognition of the 1915 events as the "Armenian genocide," has been refused entry to Athens, where it had gone to issue a statement in protest at a recently approved Greek bill.