Mehmet Perinçek

Perinçek was born on 19 September 1978, in Istanbul, to Şule and Doğu Perinçek.{{cite news | title = Perinçek's son, three others arrested in Ergenekon investigation | date = 2011-08-23 | url = http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action;?newsId=254630 | work = Today's Zaman | access-date = 2012-06-22}}{{cite news |first=Ayşe |last=Arman |title=En yakışıklı bilimsel sosyalist |date=2001-10-06 |work=Hürriyet |url=http://hurarsiv.hurriyet.com.tr/goster/haber.aspx?id=-248101&p=1 |access-date=2012-06-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200648/http://hurarsiv.hurriyet.com.tr/goster/haber.aspx?id=-248101&p=1 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }} He is fluent in English, German, and Russian.

Perinçek is most widely known for his work relating to the Turkish history, particularly around the 1900s to the 1950s. He work in relation to Ottoman and Turkish history relative to Russia is notable. He claims that "tens of thousands" of previously unknown Soviet documents related to the Armenian genocide have been declassified since the 1990s, citing examples from the State Archive of the Russian Federation such as telegrams from Polikarp Mdivani and A. Ioannisyan to Joseph Stalin, a report from the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs to the Politburo, internal memos from Stalin to Vladimir Lenin and Georgy Chicherin, as well as other documents.{{cite web | url = http://www.mehmetperincek.com/makaleler/ermmak33.doc | title = Konuşa Konuşa (5) – Doç. Dr. Mehmet Perinçek | access-date = 2012-06-22 | date = 2005-04-27 | format = DOC | work = Talking Over}}

Elövset Ağalarov, a former independent Azeri MP, current director of Azernashr, and personal friend of Perinçek, described him as a "very valuable researcher" to the Turkish people.{{cite news | title = Mehmet Perinçek is as pure as water! | date = 2011-10-14 | url = http://inter.ip.org.tr/lib/pages/detay.asp?goster=haberdetay&idhaber=3390 | work = Workers' Party | access-date = 2012-06-22 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131225140201/http://inter.ip.org.tr/lib/pages/detay.asp?goster=haberdetay&idhaber=3390 | archive-date = 2013-12-25 | url-status = dead }}{{cite news | title = Azeri vekil: 'Perinçek sudan temizdir' | date = 2011-10-14 | url = http://www.ilk-kursun.com/haber/84181 | work = İlk Kurşun Gazetesi | access-date = 2012-06-22 | language=Turkish}}

Perinçek published Армянский вопрос в 120 документах из российских государственных архивов (120 Documents in the Russian State Archives on the Armenian Question), a book about his research, in 2011.{{cite news|title=Mehmet Perinçek: the purpose of the "Ergenekon" silencing opponents of Turkey's participation in the project "greater Middle East" |date=2011-10-30 |url=http://www.bakutoday.net/mehmet-perinek-the-purpose-of-the-ergenekon-silencing-opponents-of-turkeys-participation-in-the-project-greater-middle-east.html |work=Baku Today |access-date=2012-06-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131229035201/http://www.bakutoday.net/mehmet-perinek-the-purpose-of-the-ergenekon-silencing-opponents-of-turkeys-participation-in-the-project-greater-middle-east.html |archive-date=2013-12-29 |url-status=dead }} He is also known to write on the subject of politics.{{cite news | first = Peter | last = Edel | title = Mehmet Perinçek's misinterpretation of history | date = 2010-10-01 | url = http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=223137 | work = Today's Zaman | access-date = 2012-06-22 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110115071751/http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=223137 | archive-date = 2011-01-15 | url-status = dead }}

{{see also|Ergenekon trials}}

Perinçek was detained for suspected links to the shadow organisation Ergenekon on 19 August 2011 and formally arrested during the early hours of 22 August 2011 by a ruling made by Istanbul's 12th High Criminal Court.{{cite news | title = Editor of TV channel, 3 others arrested | date = 2011-08-23 | url = http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pageid=438&n=editor-of-tv-channel-3-others-arrested-2011-08-23 | work = Hürriyet Daily News | access-date = 2012-06-22}} He was incarcerated at Silivri Prison;{{cite news | title = Mehmet Perinçek Sudan Temizdir | date = 2011-10-13 | publisher = Doğan News Agency | url = http://www.gazetempo.com/haber/gundem/guncel/1318530350-mehmet-perincek-sudan-temizdir.html | work = Gazetempo | access-date = 2012-06-22 | language = Turkish}}{{cite news | title = Court merges Workers' Party probe with Ergenekon investigation | date = 2012-06-14 | url = http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=283598 | work = Today's Zaman | access-date = 2012-06-22 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131225125926/http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=283598 | archive-date = 2013-12-25 | url-status = dead }} and on 5 August 2013 he was sentenced to six years in prison.Today's Zaman, 5 August 2013, "[http://todayszaman.com/news-322781-long-sentences-for-ergenekon-suspects-life-for-ex-army-chief.html Long sentences for Ergenekon suspects, life for ex-army chief] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130806033514/http://todayszaman.com/news-322781-long-sentences-for-ergenekon-suspects-life-for-ex-army-chief.html |date=6 August 2013 }}."

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• [http://www.mehmetperincek.com/ Official site] (Turkish)
• [http://www.bakutoday.net/mehmet-perinek-the-purpose-of-the-ergenekon-silencing-opponents-of-turkeys-participation-in-the-project-greater-middle-east.html Perinçek interview] at Baku Today

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