The European Court of Human Rights unanimously ruled on October 25, 2011 that the recognition of the Armenian Genocide cannot be criminalized in Turkey. The verdict stemmed from a case brought to the court by noted scholar Taner Akcam.
In the case Taner Akcam vs. Turkey, the court ruled that Turkey’s ongoing
criminal prosecution of scholarship on the Armenian Genocide issue constituted a
violation of Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on
Human Rights.