Egemen Bagys, Turkish Minister for EU Affairs, made a harsh statement in Switzerland, a state that had approved the bill on criminalization of denial of the Armenian Genocide by the French Senate, TRT reports.
Bagys said that there was no genocide of Armenians in 1915 and said that he was ready to be arrested for saying that.
The Turkish minister attended the World Economic Forum in Davos. He later went to Zurich and watched a performance of Turkish singer Sezen Aksu. He made the statement after the concert.