Members of Bulgarian Parliament fell into disagreement in the beginning of Parliamentary meeting

25 April 2007
FOCUS News Agency

It takes courage to stand up for truth and heroism to face threats by Turkey for the recognition of genocide. The journalist Hrant Dink was one!

Sofia. The Bulgarian Parliament honored the memory of the victims of the Armenian genocide with a minute of silence in the beginning of today’s plenary meeting, after a proposal made by the Parliament Chairman Georgi Pirinski, a reporter of FOCUS News Agency informed.

The World marked the genocide over Armenians yesterday. During the forced deportation of Armenians from the Ottoman Empire in the period 1915 – 1918 more than 1,5 Million people died – most of them elderly people, women and children.

Several MPs presented declarations for the genocide and proposed them for adoption.
The leader of the nationalist movement Attack Volen Siderov noted that there were no members of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms /of the ethnic Turks/ present at the hall to honor the memory of the victims. The member of MRF Lyutfi Mestan declined and mentioned the forceful changing of ethnic Turks’ names during the Bulgarian communist regime in the past.

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