The leader of Bulgaria's ethnic Turkish party DPS Ahmed Dogan is "the most successful project" of the former communist security service (DS), according to Kasim Dal, Dogan's former right hand.

Dogan spoke on the bTV channel Thursday, two days after his resignation from the leadership of the DPS ("Movement for Rights and Freedoms") party and his expulsion from the DPS parliamentary group.

Last week Dal declared he submitted his resignation and slammed Dogan accusing him of authoritarian control of the party, abandonment of its principles, and other sins.

On Tuesday, the Central Operational Bureau of the DPS has accepted Dal's resignation but has also declared that his motives for it were "provocative" and "libelous", and damaging the image of the party.

On Thursday, Dal said he had red the Ahmed Dogan's file from his work for the DS, the former communist State Security, has been shocked by Dogan's libels and mudslinging with respect to a number of "respectable people who fought for the cause of the DPS party."

Dal blamed Dogan for isolating the party and stated its founder must step down; Dal himself has refuted claims he had ambitions to take over.

"I cannot say that Dogan is my friend. We were very good acquaintances and co-workers, because we have known one another for years. We spent 3 years in prisons, and we are together since the first day of the DPS party," the dissenter said.

"It is an outrage to receive millions of leva, and not to show up in Parliament at all," he declared referring to Dogan's constant absence from Parliament even though he is a MP.

He believes that because of its leader, the party of the ethnic Turks in Bulgaria has lost its cause, and has been turned into a structure for accruing personal wealth.

"Things have taken such a turn that it is now very hard for me to explain why I took part in all that in the past 25 years," Dal declared saying that he has not been in contact with Dogan for the past 1.5 years.

"I am not a napkin, and I have never let anybody use me. I created the DPS structures, I know everyone in DPS. The people must regain the party. It is a disgrace that the leader wouldn't go to work, and has shut himself off, and meets with only a limiter number of people. Anybody else will be much better than Dogan," Dal explained with respect to his position vowing to continue to help people because he is a Member of Parliament from the DPS party.

"DPS will have a new leader, we will see when but the current one has to go as soon as possible," he said.

There have been reports and rumors about internal rift in the DPS between Dogan and Dal for months.

In October 2010, during a visit in Sofia, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan refused to meet with the DPS party leader Ahmed Dogan meeting instead with Kasim Dal, a DPS MP and former deputy chair of the party, who also chairs the group for friendship with Turkey in the Bulgarian Parliament. This fact led many, including a detailed article in a major Bulgarian weekly, The Capital, to declare that Ahmed Dogan lost Turkey's backing for some reason.

The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), a controversial party vastly dominated by its founder and leader Ahmed Dogan, was in power as part of the ruling coalitions in Bulgaria in 2001-2005 and 2005-2009, and once before that – in 1992-1994.

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